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.
电影题材选的很好，全景以及一些镜头画面语言也都表现得不错，但歌声与人物的哭嚎总给我一种分裂感，无法深入其中。
风格过于典型使得电影再好的题材都显得滑稽无趣
印度种姓制度真的是惨无人道，低种姓没一点人权。
不知道该说什么，这个电影抛弃了所有无用信息，拍出来十分中规中矩也十分令人震撼的事实。律法题材影片，大抵就应该是这样。伟大的杰伊比姆。
杰伊比姆实则是一种为平等而斗争的精神。
美国应该去印度追究人权反人类罪，不分青红皂白的打老百姓
事件当然是让人动容且愤怒的。但就电影本身质量而言，各方面都显得平庸，故事平淡没有节奏，推进比较想当然。最后那莫名其妙的眼神更是有喂屎之嫌。
魔鬼在人间！警察的暴行，让人发指！一个妇女，一个律师，寻求公平正义种族平权！印度能拍出这样的电影，印度是有希望的！
第一次觉得 英雄式的运镜和人物展现 是麻痹现实暴政和痛苦的麻药
又哭了。1.5倍速加快进差不多。一度惨得看不下去。给五星真的不是因为政治正确。
“魔鬼并不存在，而是人创造出来的，那肯定是人按照自己的模样创造的”。
无论是什么时代 无论是什么统治制度 如果大多数人民都到了穷尽一切办法都难以活下去的地步 那便是天翻地覆 江山改易 所以 为什么一定要走到这一步呢
欢脱的BGM和歌舞实在不适合这种严肃且宏大的捍卫人权的主题，男主的伟光正让人联想到革命样板戏。
故事剧本、音乐甚至于镜头都是印度电影标准啊。
还有人为不平等在战斗，即使是烂到骨子里的封建制度。
这部电影有十分明显的缺陷,但现实意义也值得打五星。暴力场面令人发指。
在歧视正大光明的地方，不会有尊重和平等。法律都覆盖不到，更别谈道德和文明。片尾说顶罪的事情到现在还在发生，人类进步的脚步好慢啊
用了巨大的篇幅来做背景铺垫，然后抽丝剥茧，层层推进，稳扎稳打。质量是上乘的，但头确实也是疼的，印度也可以做好的剧情片，但配乐可以不放就还是不要了。还有哭戏，头疼。。
案件、强权、暴力、尊严、爱与正义围绕着『抗争』的核心构成明快的光
聚焦描写的社会题材，警察与平民，高种姓与低种姓。这种问题不仅仅在印度有，在其他国家也是存在的，比如美国的黑人问题，这种高压低的这种无助感，简直是让人浑身冷汗直冒！
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