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.
差点吐了。导演牛逼。这种又恶心又怪又疼又能共情到的感觉真的太久没有过了。
如果不是最后血气腾腾的男人套娃特效做得不错，一星都不想给。但是套娃真的太爽太cult了，啊哈哈哈！赞美导演的想象力。
男人看了惭愧自省，女人看了惊恐悲凉，已经高于一般恐怖片而到了用表现主义展现男性社会对女性无形压迫的范畴
①宗教，上帝造人伊始，造完亚当之后，抽了亚当的一根肋骨造了夏娃，在宗教里，女人就是男人的骨中骨，肉中肉，整个宗教系统都是歪的，所以女主不能在这儿获得救赎，神父那咸猪手也说明了问题，还有那个男女图腾雕像
看到拉斯冯提尔《反基督者》的影子。后半段垮了点，3.5
当意象化叙事作为目的而不是载体呈现时 分就不好打了
High concept low execution. 概念真的很棒很棒，就是本子和男主演欠了点事儿。
具有多译性的片子，不仅讲男人，女人，婚姻，宗教，生育，社会等不同面但唯独和恐怖不粘边。
单纯觉得电影不咋地，反正不合我胃口，不是因为女权不女权的问题。电影里隐喻的概念太多，场景也就那样吧，女主没有什么主动性是最让我厌烦的，就最开头来说，家暴控制狂老公自杀了不是应该高兴吗？看到这里我有三分欣慰，终于有男人以自杀作为对爱人的惩罚了。
男人生，性本恶。罪恶缠身是不能诡辩的事实。讽刺过于直白，文本上几乎没有值得推敲的地方，完全是直给。把噱头都放置在视觉上的玩法，将诡异与惊悚结合。配乐由出彩的地方，但相较于《湮灭》还是弱了一些。若能在文本上花点心思，把讽刺玩得再稍抽象些或许更有意思。
很有可能成为今年个人最佳恐怖电影。加兰的艺术风格太合胃口了，摄影和配乐搭得恰到好处，恐惧感从美轮美奂的画面中滋生。刷影评时看到一个标题，“男人真的如此可怕吗？”对此我只能说，导演的意思已经很清楚了：这个世界是由男性构成的，过去是，现在是，将来或许也是。女人是孤立的个体，男人是团结的群体——跟踪狂、露阴癖、荡妇羞辱、煤气灯效应、有毒的男子气概等等。男人诞下男人，男人养育男人，男人复制男人，男人成为男人。这是一部彻底的“性别对立”的电影，没有和解的可能，只有恐惧的必要。加兰作为男性导演，或许也受着自身性别的限制，因此只能选择呈现男性的行为，而非女性的感受。但不管怎样，如此类型的电影，越多越好。
没看懂说实话，不过被男人生孩子内段震到了，就这个思路能给五了，恐怖片里算是很恐怖的场景了，👏👏
后三分之一太精彩的cult片。男女权的对立，不过是想要被爱的证明。本来以为是女导演写的故事，没想到是男导演，好像一切又都说得通了。相当惊喜的恐怖片。
厌男症电影，从这个电影里我看到，女人看男人也是很主观和片面的
有点《逃出绝命镇》的感觉，一村的人仿佛都不太正常。
内化的男性凝视投向寂静的外部世界，理智沉睡之时这里充满了来自潜意识的梦魇，这只怪兽既是“愧疚”也是“无力”，是丈夫设下的阴影线，也是古老如岁月“不能为我征服之物将悉数毁灭”的诅咒。同一的面容也许并非男人们的真实样貌，却是这些强抑惊惧的女人心底心照不宣的影子
不想去研究什么隐喻，只觉得连环生育那段有看头
还挺直白的性别惊悚片，导演致力于创造的cult奇观，从语言暴力，宗教，性，生殖等方面表现女性所受到的压迫。正因为是放在一个乡村离群索居的环境中，所以比较单薄，而现实生活中性别议题的复杂性更强，显得本片比较傻直。千男一面的演员罗里·金尼尔已经是英国影视变态男专业户了，没想到还能继续拓展变态的阈值，我也是有被惊到。本片对他的考验主要是生理层面的，感觉有些场景相当累人，但可惜在导演对于心理的恶探讨不足。
全程尿点，不恐怖不惊悚微重口，打45星的短评清一色都是B癌晚期豆瓣文青。。
但女主脑海中前夫“亡魂”对妻子说，他只是想得到爱，又让我觉得此片不止在讲述“仇男”、“厌男”，不过是从生物学和社会学角度，讲述男女充满矛盾、难以调和却彼此需要又偶尔相爱。
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