Set in a small Quebec town in the late-1920′s, this emotional drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film pianist. Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually marries her. Shortly after this she bears his son, Pierre, who joins the army. She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son. Pierre is killed in the war, and Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist. She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up. Her son becomes a painter and once his own son, Antoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother. Intrigued, Antoine heads to the Big Apple in hopes of finding her.
This movie is an emotional drama about how Antoine, played beautifully by François Méthé, discovers the details of his heritage. This film won many awards in Canada and at Cannes in 1988. François Méthé, who was about 11-years-old, never acted again after this movie.
From IMDb:
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who’s about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
台词金句频出,很多对白都值得截图收藏和反复品味。
看完最大的感受就是"自然"两个字。剧情推进自然,没有强行制造冲突;演员表演自然,没有用力过猛的感觉;对话自然,就像现实生活中人们在交谈一样。这种看起来毫不费力的"自然",其实是最难做到的。它需要编剧对人性有深刻的理解,需要导演有极高的控制力,需要演员有充足的自信。
追到大结局非常满意,没有烂尾,每个角色的结局都合情合理。
追到大结局非常满意,没有烂尾,每个角色的结局都合情合理。
最后一幕的反转让我直接从沙发上坐了起来,完全没想到会是这样的结局。但仔细回想,前面每一个看似不起眼的细节其实都是伏笔,导演早已在不经意间把所有线索都铺好了,只是我们被巧妙地引导向了另一个方向。这种被彻底震撼然后又恍然大悟的感觉,正是优秀悬疑类作品最大的魅力所在。结尾之后我又倒回去看了几个关键片段,才发现每一个镜头都不是无意义的。
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