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.
就当是看舞台剧吧，这样密集复古的台词如果当成电影看还是会觉得很奇怪很难入戏的
在欧洲的传统叙事中总喜欢插入一则带有宿命论的神谕。
我们所有的昨天，不过是替愚人们照亮了通往死亡土壤的去路，熄灭吧，熄灭吧，短促的烛光，人生不过是一个行走的影子，一个舞台上指手画脚的拙劣伶人。
今年颁奖季里唯一用对了黑白影像的电影，视觉层面在努力挣脱已经乏善可陈的文本，这大概是仅有的亮点，剩下大段大段的念白配上舞台剧的风格就只能狂翻白眼……
3.5。丹泽尔华盛顿的表演精准到极致，但是并没有让人觉得特别出彩，反倒是女巫的表演令人印象深刻，虽然很大程度上归功于造型和妆容。摄影真的绝了，用表现主义那一套布景和构图，变形的、图形几何化的场面调度，来表现这样一个摒弃宏大叙事、侧重内心情感之黑暗扭曲的悲剧史诗，再贴切不过了。
对于向来不在看之前了解演职员表等背景的人来说，看到是乔尔科恩导演挺惊讶的，一个是他脱离科恩兄弟这一导演组合，再一个科恩兄弟的作品一向是无限接近现实，再加上自编的剧本，代表性的如《冰血暴》，而本片改编自莎士比亚的经典戏剧《麦克白》，很明显和科恩之前的风格大不相同，影片采用1.37:1接近正方形的比例和黑白色调，布景极简，作为电影舞台感更重，脸部特写居多，关注点集中在演员演技上。而台词也充满原著中的诗性，。
被摄影惊艳了两分钟，然后越来越无聊，黑白影像+极简线条+聚焦打光只是加重了舞台感啊，而且为什么丹泽尔的演技越看越生硬
科恩兄弟掰了之后老大个人的第一部，德国表现主义的视觉构成仍然承载着黑色电影的内核。取景之逼仄，近身肉搏的高超调度，给人近在眼前的舞台感。女巫太强大，技压群芳，过目不忘。反倒是饰演麦克白夫妇的两个老戏骨自信得过了头，与沉溺于疯狂偏执之中的角色略微不合。乔尔牛逼！
熬過前半段，後半段竟然不少能聽懂了⋯⋯黑白畫面與光影太厲害，這就是戲劇的魅力嗎
4:3黑白、打光，这都像黑泽明的电影元素。虽然不同场景间剪辑衔接地很巧妙，但大段自言自语舞台剧风格的电影真让我受不了，20分钟弃剧。
7.9 每次dw的电影都会觉得他很厉害，但又喜欢不起来，production design 真的很棒。
舞台化的步光以及黑白选择，非常古典，电影化的电影。除了丹泽尔华盛顿的台词有点温吞，几近完美。有几个镜头及构图实在是美不胜收，这才是光影中作画。
话剧般的场景黑白过分明亮的配色，暗黑预言勾起的野心和欲望，不义之王，悲剧早已注定，但是为害不浅，从有功之臣到万人唾弃的暴君，何苦听信，失去底线，坠入地狱。
布景很绝，赋予光影以意义；演员不错，戏演于光影之间。然而，莎士比亚戏剧之于我却不甚欢喜。
这个黑白对路，和极简背景相得益彰。台词，表演，人像特写都是教科书级别的。
1.4 Seattle 在举起王冠的时候 细的缝隙和走廊 去床上 褪去的水和声音
一言难尽，但作为麦克白电影演绎的比法鲨那版好。
4:3黑白近距人像的复古模式，反而让这种舞台剧更增添了些许魔幻感，故事平淡，名角加持还不算难看
大科恩的改编剧本太保守了，戏剧舞台和电影结合，台词几乎莎翁原版，剧情也好像没什么变化。还是现代改编老作品的一贯视角，所谓结构经典神话勾连现代人们的精神困境，这点倒不是乔伊斯的意识流味儿而是偏精神分析各种符号的生添硬加。
舞台劇的獨白，雖是黑白但是每幀都能感受到畫面帶來的鮮明感！每位演員的演技可以說是相當在線，整個佈景也是相當了得。
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