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.
没能脱离男性的女性叙事片子，一看导演是男性便全然明白了，感觉是自以为爱女支持女性的男性会拍出来和喜欢的电影。
看了是谜，看完也是谜。电影讲述哑女逃避女巫『她自己也是』，多次替换身体，并想让自己生活？
暂停了三次缓解我的心碎 徐玄振演技太有代入感以至于我哭了半部电影 好绝望啊真的
30几岁就得这种病 有点尴尬
神最终都会走下神坛。可怕的不是鬼，也不是神，是人。
有值得欣赏的地方，但更多的是不适感。有些元素搭配起来实在太膈应了。
还蛮喜欢，全篇弥漫着某种不随身份变换消解的茫然和看似消极的抗拒，主角身上同时有作为“女”和作为“巫”的部分，后者是无性别指向的、如兽类一般自然的（很多处低视角镜头强化了这样兽的印象），主角以巫起始，从机械地模仿人到理解人再到成为人，“女”的属性随之苏醒，她成为妻子、成为母亲。我对生命和女巫身份的延续能否使她不再孤单持怀疑态度，但在作为女儿被母亲控制-作为女人被父权控制之后，成为母亲的她大概拥有更多自我意识和精神自由
女巫在我的印象中似乎就一直和大自然有着紧密的联系 村庄 人类 牲畜 野兽 乌鸦 溪水 森林 她是世间万物 大量第一人称特写镜头 记录着小女巫的成长历程 我愿称之为the best of youth - a witcher’s girlhood
流动的女性意识，泰伦斯·马力克拍恐怖片的话估计就是这样了
生命的虚无淹没了我，不如让我像witch mama一样死去。
披着女巫标签的女性电影，奇妙的视角，悲伤得如散文，在父权社会背景下女性所背负的一些东西。真的很美。
这能叫电影？不就是拼凑的乐色吗，我就不信有人不快进能看完这东西
没想到是以巫女的视角看人类的悲喜，不断转换身份之间，竟然有点泰伦斯马力克的味道，本以为是一部氛围独特的恐怖片，没想到基本算一步文艺片了，3星半
徐玄振演技太好了！电影后面一小部分很突然，总之还是蛮不错的。
与其说是电影，不如说更像某种上世纪的叙事诗。如果忽略一些诸如女主是怎么学习词汇和语言这种小事的话，还是可以颇感兴趣地看完的。它也很像那种暗黑女性童话，只不过女性得不那么彻底，总逃不过男人和孩子这两个主题，仿佛少了某一样，女人就不再是女人一样。但影片的很多呓语，还是极具美感的。
原本打的3星，看完点评有了更深的了解和体会，加一星。女人啊，爱情啊
玛利娅最后说：“怎么对你而言就这么简单？为什么？”
披着恐怖片外衣的文艺片 女孩的成长故事吧 耳目一新 很棒
一个懵懂女巫的成长和自我认知之旅，用她自己残忍的方式感受着土地阳光和河流，感受着笑容和眼泪，感受着友善和敌意，感受着愉悦和愤怒，感受着性、爱情的痛苦与美好，感受着欲望与恐惧，感受着绝望与仇恨，感受着孤独，从而学习和了解着这个世界。散文诗一般的镜头语言和台词，不过中途看睡着了。
差点因为不看恐怖片错过一部好电影，优秀的视听语言，散文一样的台词，有点意思。
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