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.
当所有人都能闻到战争时，它是不可避免的。能把平淡的故事拍成怀疑和恐惧的困局，历史是已揭秘的悬疑吧。Paul容易理想化狂热，Hugh is just Like A Puppy. 间谍活动约等于余情未了前任见面，打字员姐姐逐渐理解了一切。
有几幕台词和画面的对应非常精巧，保罗和休的台词被休和妻子重现，但此刻休已经变成了“保罗”。凌晨街头汽车里关于谈判还是暴力的争吵其实象征着谈和还是战争吧，连阵营如出一辙。但我们去看的时候会知道谈判和暴力已经不再是他们能做的选择了，历史已经形成了，另一种行动必然会失败…
虽然是fiction但是讨论的问题很深刻，paul、hugh和张伯伦都是很有张力的角色，在历史的过道里没有什么非黑即白，放下冲动的正义和戴着镣铐的反抗最为动人
戏说慕尼黑协议 但是片子节奏和摄影是真好……
我们不能选择自己的时代，我们只能选择如何回应。
为什么要洗张伯伦😢
张伯伦对英国二战的贡献不亚于丘吉尔，为英国备战争取了宝贵的时间。“乌克兰危机”以史为鉴
上了俩小时历史课…but收获了英德帅哥大赏
已现世视角来看有一种无法阻挡的悲剧感，但仍旧抱有愿景奋不顾身的年轻人可能是永远会感动的点。乔麦演得蛮好，小哥俩还是挺有化学反应的
最后要哭出来了。thankyou thankyou thankyou
本片对张伯伦是不是有美化的嫌疑？慕尼黑协议的签订充其量也只是让英国做好战争的准备，与张伯伦的妥协不值一提。本以为是政治片，却没想到是高质量男♂同片，有被磕到，他们因误会而看似友尽，多年后因英德签订协议重新邂逅，共吸一支烟，义无反顾前往希特勒地点保护你……最后那个保镖竟然也是反希特勒者令我震惊，德国金发男好帅，最后的回忆杀好伤
为张伯伦正名，慕尼黑协议被解释成为牺牲个人名誉换取备战时间的战略决定
挺无聊的,除了Paul 比较帅…我好像没get到点
以为是讲少年气的血勇败给绥靖老头儿们的老奸巨猾，却原来最后成了为张伯伦洗地、平反。对这位厌战老兵“和平首相”的新解有所了解，但将之塑造为“我不下地狱谁下地狱”、以甘愿自侮不惧出丑而为国家为欧洲争取到宝贵时间⋯⋯啊，多少也是拐弯拐得有点急。不知道苏台德但泽斯克的人们愿不愿意接受这样的“委曲”。对照俄侵乌的当下，倒是令人唏嘘，历史不过是复读机，同样的台词、同样的人设，一次次地重演。两个男主演得相当不错。另：一次次地，那么多人曾经想肉体消灭大魔王，都没成功。这是天数，天不灭曹，人类的劫数。
虽然影片一直洗白张伯伦看着不爽，但没想到结尾字幕竟然能把英国二战胜利归功于张伯伦用慕尼黑协定牺牲苏台德换来的那一年偏安。真被恶心吐了。
那位满嘴狠话的德国热血青年保罗，让我想起那个著名的段子：“你被骗得最狠的一次是怎样的，答：他说等会在床上要弄死我”，保罗就是这个号称要弄死希特勒的嘴炮兄。
抱歉，张伯伦永远洗不白，无论是上帝视角还是当时的视角。
三星半。历史题材，在叙事上聚焦于小人物，编剧十分注重兼顾两者，导致整个剧本非常平淡，但完成度不错，也设置了一些紧张的转折和给予观众思考空间的抒情部分以保证影片的节奏感。选角很优秀，甚至对于影片的立体化和丰富感起到关键作用，有老戏骨如铁叔，也有具有一定基础和名气的青年演员如荞麦、Liv，还有一些新面孔，搭配起来毫不突兀。两位男主的化学反应很强烈，也令本片更生动了几分。
难得好片，我们只是无法选择生活的年代，英德新生代两帅比演得真好。
咋地？张伯伦是隐忍的英雄？绥靖还有道理了？铁爸爸演张伯伦也阻止不了我骂他^_^另外我有了新的cp嘻嘻嘻嘻嘻
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