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.
【黑米影库】相信大部分影迷都是奔着两位老戏骨而看的，只可惜实力还在，但这剧情和特效的确辣眼睛！
剧情缓慢，前期过多的铺垫很不必要。剧本和台词的问题非常大，有几处经不起推敲。久经历练的战士相信车轮能“辟邪”，纱布竟然也能算“药品”。
电影整体走的一个商业片的套路，剧情上无功无过，属于看的时候会有情绪，看完就忘的那种电影。
范老师属实是演技过硬，演什么像什么。张涵予硬汉代言人，演英雄也是基操了。
张涵予这个角色真脸谱化，既然是铁道英雄，怎么着也得有点铁路工人的样子吧。就算他真实身份不是铁路上的工人，但天天跟这帮工人混一起，要不引起日本人的注意，伪装一下低调的跟工人融为一体保命不好吗？可惜这位大哥形象打眼得很，角色塑造得跟个黑帮老大一样，你像个山里土匪都还好说点，你塑造成这样日本人还不怀疑给抓起来，你当鬼子都眼瞎智障啊？编剧能不能不那么悬浮，你拍的是中国抗战游击队，不是美国西部牛仔。
太装腔作势了，看了半个小时，就交代了日本人杀了我方三个人，还没有故进入事？这是一部故事片？？弃
故事耳熟能详，除了开篇有点墨迹，最后老洪牺牲前身负重伤还能神勇歼敌，多少有点夸张外，故事还行吧。最喜欢老王，看他的桥段都特带劲儿。
范伟演技入木三分，张涵予一如既往潇洒有型，镜头很美，肃杀浪漫
毫无可圈可点之处，最后队长的死更是极其突兀。
范伟扔手雷的戏的确帅气到我了。
三分的片子
故事背景下寒冬一直在下雪，雪是整个「冷」的氛围元素，也是压抑环境里「明」的美学元素。全篇色调都是沉郁的，唯一几抹艳色是血， 苹果，烟火，甚至隐形的未出场的太阳，这些符号象征着热血，感情，信仰，希望。泪点和情怀都是从故事带出来的，耳熟能详的故事有了技术的加成多了一些悲怆感和美感，很多镜头很冷漠很残忍也很美。有一条比较动人的感情线，是老王和小孩那种非亲但胜似的父子情，是一种战争年代国破家亡的同为中国人的感情映射，也是藤原口中的「家人」。点题点出铁道英雄不仅是铁道队，还有经历过动荡，支持抗日的普通百姓。这个故事也因为有范伟老师的呈现多了太多可看性，比如老王和藤原在餐桌的对决自认为比老洪的枪战对决更精彩。加一颗星给临场感，声效视效营造氛围很好，如果电影院没开空调可能更好（:-D）特效可以再努努力
各种传统电影手法用得娴熟，娴熟到出现一个什么场景和细节立刻可以预知下一步会出现什么。剧情逻辑交代和衔接的很差，煽情特别尬，但是就所观察，还是有不少爱国观众看的直流眼泪。范伟走路姿势跟小品《卖拐》一模一样。
影片在氛围营造和故事节奏上都不错，但是在人物塑造上显得比较欠缺。影片中人物众多，有老洪、老王、庄妍、亓顺、教导员、石头、藤原等，但是唯独老王比较立体，其他人物的背景、性格都交代得不够清晰，因此人物难免扁平、缺乏生命力。同时，不得不提的是，影片中的日军也显得过于愚笨，藤原以及结尾处去火车头开火车的那个日军军官，都是在自己完全掌控的局面下被杀害，过于虚假了。
把主旋律电影拍得紧张好看能有多难？这片要不是抗日题材我都想给一星。情感，悬疑，动作，历史，等等，只要编导能把握住其中一项也不至于成片这么拉跨。
真实事件改编，不忍心给低分，但影片质量太一般了，折中三星。
唯一的亮点可能就是范伟老师了……其他的，平庸啊
基努每次念词、皱眉甚至眨眼都太像John Wick了；
最喜欢范伟的卧底老王，第一次演英雄的范师傅，区别于传统的英雄形象，他抓住了英雄的精魂，表演一如既往得稳，粗糙的手，指甲缝里的泥，酒糟鼻——极有质感的人物，几场哭戏，层次分明，小石头追着老王喊爹的场景，太戳了！一群来自底层的热血儿女，冒着生命危险，扒火车、穿铁轨、偷物资、斗日军，大雪纷飞的工业小镇，1:1搭建的蒸汽火车，氛围感很强，能很快地浸入故事。
好无聊啊，老王算是唯一丰满一点的角色，张涵予的大衣礼帽真的一秒出戏。
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