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.
蛮喜欢这电影节奏的～虽然在厚重的80-90年代，历史太过沉重迂腐……但男男主角自然且随着剧情的缓缓深入～Follow to ours heart ~是演技和眼神的不作假加持～
蛮好的，旁白写得也很好。这个画幅构图特别漂亮。比较少见的母女命题。
要素齐全，代入感强烈。审讯室父子对峙、母亲送衣等几幕都看得人后颈发凉。感觉算是minor group题材里挺出挑的片子了(¿
有点像暗之光…影片表达的大环境下的同性压迫暂且不说，男主之间的暧昧表达得非常到位，借书的时候，抚摸脸庞的时候，扔纸屑吐烟的时候，以及看着照片发呆的时候，非常像在看校园恋爱… 审批室那段很绝，喜欢里面的妈妈，男主设定也非常有趣，想证明自己是个男子汉的警官，影片里面说必须要离开这里，因为这里一直都不会变，太刺眼了… ps看完此片非常想喝酒
好缠绵的感情，在那个社会的LGBT真的太难了
我想
“这一切对你来说怎么就这么简单？”，文艺恐怖片，三星半，
玛利亚在小女巫每次适应一个新角色过得幸福的时候便出现来嘲讽一番“你永远融入不了人类的圈子” 其实啊 玛利亚只是嫉妒 或者说更是孤独 所以啊她不断地找小孩子当继承人 大概她只是希望有个人可以陪在自己身边 什么女巫血统她并没有很在意 不然她不会那么容易被小女巫杀了自己——那一刻她终于也知道自己这么多年来都是错了的 女巫也可以成为人类 只要有爱 也将不再孤单了。
很久没看到这么满意的一部同性片啦，相比现代背景下充满校园、青春、高颜值的甜甜耽美恋爱，我还是更偏爱以人物传记或某段历史、社会背景下的故事为原型的同性电影，或许在更为压抑、沉重的情境下，对他们感情中的真挚、痛苦、纠结也更感同身受吧。想到了本尼的《模仿游戏》，虽然讲述感情的部分不多，但也是表现出了一个迫害同性恋者的社会带给他们的伤害有多大。影片最后虽是开放式结局，但我觉得在当时的社会背景下多半是BE了，唉......
讲了很多东西，有的恰到好处，有的还待丰富。
我想
有趣的设定，无聊的过程，这到底是算治愈还是致郁啊？
文艺邪典 喜欢女巫的技能设定 不过虽说有些女性觉醒的意味 但体验过男儿身之后竟然还能义无反顾的当女人吗....
既然如此，为什么不用情节呢？
私人的亲情和爱情与案件的终点真相，审问者与被审问者，情理交融。太精彩了！在特殊历史时期，压抑的政治高墙内喘息，直到最后更为动人。
快跑。我会找到你的。
男主应该是从那场派对后弯掉的，感官刺激引起心理变化，不过结局挺有意思，很有味道。
What a ridiculous and hopeless time. The vibes of each scenes was also despairing. Therefore the scenes when they together were seem to be the only hope in here.
能不能请文艺片导演别霍霍恐怖和科幻题材？？
女巫版本的《隐秘的生活》，一样的乡下风光一样的旁白絮语，但因为比后者短而且剧情留下的解读空间更大，居然觉得还不错。
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