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.
爱欲和良知将我们唤醒，但从来不能向最黑色的部分复仇。
真好看，从最开始的画质调色天哪，感觉太多需要学习的了，还有镜头语言
铁幕将散前的东欧，同性恋犯罪…各种奖项符号太多，却无法构成一部真正震撼人心的作品。
完成度很高的一部电影，起承转合交代的很清楚，故事性也不弱，推荐。
整部电影看下来最值得赞叹的是镜头的层次感出人意料，单场景下的人物站位十分考究，画面冷感十足。没想到制作水准如此之高，情欲戏从光影到剪辑都能让人感受到肉体的秋波暗送。电影主题倾向于一个大背景下的小切入点，性取向少数群体在高压文化背景下的挣扎、妥协、反抗、失所，欺骗与真情之间的平衡，一千个同性恋有一千种活法，自由是每个国家、每个时代的共同课题。只是最后的点题拍法有些猝不及防，前期案情脉络没有交代清楚，仅仅专注于主人公个人心态的变化，后期就很难回归到初心的宏大话语体系之中。虽格局有限，但个人线的处理还是可圈可点，一个开放式悲剧，不禁让人想起风信子的花语之一，即“永恒的怀念”。
跟女朋友爱情，之前看影评说太多男女床戏，实际就两次，第一次是遇见男生前，很愉快，第二次就对应遇见后，就女生很主动在问[怎么了]
阴冷暗色调的氛围为故事增色不少。即使有不少套路化的设置，也依然靠悬念吊起人看下去的兴致。对Homo的绞杀如今卷土重来，这样的题材在当下超越地域值得一拍再拍。
两个互相欺骗的人，却付出真心，有点可怜，审讯那段虐了。其实爸爸也无能为力，对上司对制度无力抗争，对儿子所谓的保护也成了伤害。
是不是越冷的地方对于情感就越压抑 但越压抑爆发时也就越热烈 好可惜最后的美好也只是梦幻泡影一场//色调的冷感和胶片的颗粒感 到底还有多少隐秘未能得到妥善归终呢
7.9。快节奏，剧情张力直接拉满的犯罪片，同时也很好地兼容了同性这一主题。话说犯罪+同性其实是经典搭配，虽然后期这一搭配创造了一系列的绝世大烂片，但貌似前仆后继者依旧无数→_→这剧本好几处是有逻辑bug的，比如第一次跟踪时神似开花的小胡子男主是怎么逃出生天的这段居然直接给跳了？！还有为啥关键证据在手，男主居然搞成了鱼死网破的局面……其实细究起来，很多处真经不起推敲。但好在导演在铺设线索速度上够干脆利落，看时倒也无暇顾及这些了。以及，本片男主的同性床戏和异性床戏几乎五五开，不是很感兴趣同片的观众们还是可以看看的~
故事讲的完整有逻辑，这么简单的事情，很多电影做不到。
对手戏挺有张力诶，荷尔蒙颤动了，小卷发太好吃了，男主好像桑总
后劲无穷 emo了很久很久 但我从影评中了解到波兰正在发生着什么的时候 再次对这部电影肃然起敬，我愿意称之为英雄
近期看过的最好的一部同影。两个人在审讯室的那段戏，好绝。CP感爆棚。
两倍速，我都不看不下去的电影
两星半。以悬疑犯罪为背景展现了一个阴冷灰暗的冬季下自我认知的故事。认清自我这条线讲的还可以，虽然中规中矩但也娓娓道来。而cp戏其实很少，俩人在审讯室有揪心到。但在看到最后受也骗了男主后对峙让他滚，明明攻是过来救他，我攻控劲就飙上来了，情绪全没，我日。（不了解波兰，但看起来对性少数群体的迫害从古至今全球都是一样的。）
虽然故事讲的有点乱，但意外是即使除去同性的部分，依旧是部能看得下去的完整电影，而且质感有加分。
面对同志杀手，警察“以身试法”，最后的结局就是惨兮兮，这样的记录在西方的特殊历史时期里，大环境无情压制同性生存秘事的电影差不多都快一个品相了。整体并不出彩，对警察和小哥的情感的描绘也比较一般。
逃吧，一起逃走，离开这个国家……
色调阴冷，节奏紧张，铁幕笼罩下一丝追寻自由的光，挺动人的。P.S.男主的眼睛真好看啊！
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