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.
首先观影过程中，有两处感觉断层的厉害，跳跃性很强，不是很合理。故事是个简单的故事，逻辑性也正常，没有出彩的地方。最后方中信的一段独白还有点说法，其他就没啥了。人物方面，表演以及人物设定都不够丰满，尤其小助理演的有些尴尬，容易出戏。
剧情异常简单，廖启智最后一部作品，感觉像是电影版的《律政强人》，但他的戏份远远不够。方中信则无论如何给我一种“张强”的感觉(他着西装实在太型)，但剧中寻回自己初心的前段非常突兀，有点莫名其妙。
这不是电影，这就是硬塞啊，老师们，你们都不睁睁眼吗？
虚情假意、口号式煽情、结构上的不明所以......香港电影向低智烂俗国产电影转型
看完感觉蛮复杂的心情，提到鸡蛋跟高墙的对立，结果打败高墙的是团伙的内讧，以及用伪造证据的手法。程序非正义的正义是不是正义？
为什么总有智障的导演，找到脑瘫编剧，傻逼演员，拍的智障电影，投资方是智障吗？当然不是，就是为了洗钱吧。这些娱乐圈人渣们，就不能学学韩国棒子，美国佬好好拍电影赚钱吗？赚到钱了，就算都烂成这样，都不觉得羞耻吗？？娱乐圈就是脸皮厚啊，那么多不要脸无知之徒的人，在里面骗钱。
理解为啥不上院线走网络了，真的就跟闹着玩似的。毫无悬念毫无紧张感，故事写得小儿科，制作个方面都差很多。
我覺得還是很不錯的嘛，尤其智叔的發揮，他個人肯定是場場盡力發揮得最好，遊輪上的戲，爆發力非同一般，那時應該已經是患病後期！臉上的憔悴都流露出來，也和失去女兒的父親這角色吻合！懷念智叔，實力派走紅了就這麼走了，是觀眾損失呀！劇情還有方中信、譚耀文我覺得都不錯，尤其喜歡亦正亦邪的譚耀文！
屎到爆炸，旧桥旧戏，好似睇紧90年代TVB刑事侦缉档案，以后呢d甘嘅老戏骨磨皮加九流剧本可以统称为TVB大网剧。
简直不像是港片，有点失望，案件不够精彩，律师们的表现也一般般，暗走偏锋也激不起任何情绪，大概是这个电影缺乏了情绪。
2021年了，我看到一部20年代的TVB。
勉强及格。毕竟有这么一帮好香港演员，毕竟是廖启智的遗作。
其實也沒那麼爛啦！對白比較白痴而已，方中信加一星🥰
作为律政剧，它把律师们当了空气；作为刑侦剧，它把警察们当了空气；作为主旋律剧，它把观众当了空气。三星给还在坚守香港电影的老戏骨。
非常非常非常中规中矩的电影，没有反转，没有惊喜，没有意外，就是讲完了
2021.11.13观于北市。很久没看到那么多TVB聚在一起了，智叔人狠话不多，台词不用多。
这案件需要信仰？这需要信仰？麻烦编一点复杂的案件经过吧。还以为是法庭戏。。。
思想性1.5+1.5，艺术性0.8+1+0.8+0.8+0.8，观赏性2+1✔最终还是得以虎制虎
这种类型的港片，应该在80年代末就有了吧，30余年未有变化；方中信、廖启智、曾江等等的作品，80年代末也进入大陆了，30余年未有变化；老戏骨的戏是好，可是剧本是30年未有变化之套路！00后的人肯定不知道港片曾经居然那么辉煌过！
演员很努力地在表演了 但剧作实在太普通了
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