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.
6.2分低估了，我愿意给五星拉高这个评分。电影剧情表现的主题宏大却又很简单，人总会老去，死亡，是每个人都要经历的事情，谁都躲不过这个坎，这是一个永恒的话题。人生中会经历很多东西，生命的意义在于传承吗，好像是也不是，传承的记忆，知识，在几代人后终究还是会被遗忘，消失在宇宙中，比一粒沙还渺小，发不出一丁点儿声音，打不出一丁儿点浪花，但是每个人活着的当下，活着的刹那却又是那么清晰，那么美好。电影演员演技在线，音乐和画面转场和布置都很棒，故事完整而又有岁月感，看完让人感觉像过完了一生，就如同薄荷糖般，那么的美好，那么的纯洁。第二天买的高粱饴，味道还不错。
各种细节 用心了
6.8。卡司无敌了，平静压抑痛苦，一如日本电影。所有人都有自己的坚持，且地震带来的更多。看到一半就知道反转的套路，比较硬。
影片节奏真的非常缓慢，就好像慢慢去体会那种失去亲人的伤痛。日本大地震造成的海啸真的是摧毁了好多的家庭，人们也都在艰难中努力生存。
完全是两个故事缝合起来的，看起来着实有点割裂…
一种久违的隽永感，像是以前看过的一些小语种无厘头的电影一样，主题很大，细节又很小很小，最后没有强迫观众落泪还挺好的。
两个地方挺打动我的：电吉他演奏的青春舞曲和朋友再见，活脱脱就是那个时代的躁动和蓬勃。萌萌的手术，和教授死后捐献遗体的解剖——父女两人站位的对调，以及两次主刀的张小鲁。一生一死，一少一老。看得我简直泪崩。
泪点很多。女主有王朔笔下人物的那种劲儿。王珞丹演技真好，还有老王，倍儿正宗的北京爷们儿感。还有丁教授和妹妹，都太有特点了，这种人物刻画很鲜活的电影非常喜欢，尽管不商业，后半段有点男主独角戏，有些凌乱。但真的非常值得买票。
个人觉得应该值7分以上的电影，打个四星平衡下。当看到佐藤健饰演的角色在离影片结束还有四十多分钟就被抓获后就猜到肯定有反转。都说天灾无情人有情，事实上是有些人定的制度比灾难还更无情。在生命和尊严面前，那些僵硬和不合理的规定都应该让步，这样的执行才是人性化和有温度的，执行者不该像没有生命的机器人一样麻木无情。可惜现实往往没那么理想，联想到最近上海疫情期间发生的一系列事，我们离营造这样一个人性化的环境还很遥远，继续努力吧。清原果耶太可了，想和她交往想保护她（星星眼）。电影里三人吃饭时的面条感觉很美味，决定晚餐就吃面条了。
故事和主题其实是比较一般性的展开，依赖情感在压抑处滚动的力量创造情感的体验。但我就很吃日式剧作这一套，那些在连接处，忽显忽断的情感指向，被演员们对剧本的深情演绎积累和爆发出来，紧绷成一根伦理和社会规则相冲撞的颤动的弦，当然也是很传统社会派的做法，但又有何不可呢，社会派的议题，也需要自我较劲式的人文关怀，这和观念思辨是不一样的，懂日本人的世俗情感就懂这样的“无聊”表达，相反是不会懂的。
一个真敢写，一个真敢拍，两个真敢演。 就算能解读出点啥也不能掩盖整片乱七八糟的感觉。。
挺有意思的一部电影，感觉讲了很多内容，仔细一看又好像只是一个故事而已。我们这平凡的漫长的一生该如何度过。
等二刷
只可惜，略微出彩的只有音乐。
不错很喜欢。为丁萌萌的演出多加一颗星。
这是个爱情片？前一半和后一半确实像两个人写的
泪点很多。女主有王朔笔下人物的那种劲儿。王珞丹演技真好，还有老王，倍儿正宗的北京爷们儿感。还有丁教授和妹妹，都太有特点了，这种人物刻画很鲜活的电影非常喜欢，尽管不商业，后半段有点男主独角戏，有些凌乱。但真的非常值得买票。
“离开是最绝对的永远。”
从腐烂尸体上飘出的一缕残魄，仍带着尸体的衰朽气味
秋田alive theatre。大意了，以为《犬部》看懂了就敢闯社会悬疑片的场子，结果细节各种懵，还好剧情都能搞清楚。虽然海报c位给了佐藤健，但宽叔仍然是片里最大的咖。佐藤健的阴郁戏份表现极佳，劝圆山那里有点崩（不过人设突然拐弯，的确太难了）。林桑没有特别出彩的地方。有这样的片子背书，我有点担心保险料会继续涨…
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