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.
任何型男老了都变成暖男，杰昆亦如是，在表现慈父感和为了和孩子好好相处的各种细节真的是分寸太好，好演员果然经得起任何角色。电影里老少互动的和谐感，黑白片的质感也超好。
當cliche 拍得不落俗套，孩子想像的未來以及成年人不敢面對的將來，累極時為自己打打氣，c'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon。生命糟透了，但很正常。
跟着导演的视角变化 对过去与未来不断问询 试图寻找答案 又在平静的接受着自己的生活 随着受访者和城市街道的变化 导演内心的平静从未改变 华金菲尼克斯对细腻名干的内心捕捉的到位深刻 但导演对现实和问题没有加入很多自己的思考 没有点题和深化主旨
这么平淡的一部电影，没刻意煽情却给我整落泪了。大人与孩子都在试着教会对方生活，大人不一定时刻聪明，小孩也不一定永远愚笨。
任何型男老了都变成暖男，杰昆亦如是，在表现慈父感和为了和孩子好好相处的各种细节真的是分寸太好，好演员果然经得起任何角色。电影里老少互动的和谐感，黑白片的质感也超好。
我感到最绝的部分是小儿子说“我听说过她的那些男朋友，她总是陷入麻烦，她以前还流产过”“我该怎么回答这个？我都是第一次听说”过于真实了。身为这一个家庭的儿子，不知母亲为何偏爱自己，不知姐姐和母亲为何感情微妙，和前女友难以复合，甚至不知道姐姐流产的过去。男性世界和女性世界如此隔绝，怪不得男性的缪斯是女人，女人不存在缪斯。
看得眼湿湿……爱是深切的共情……中国一切都太快了，太求效率、实际、和结果，却忘了柔软，慢下来，感受自己和他人的感受，care for people, care our own feelings…..
《如果<这个杀手不太冷>里的杀手是个访谈者会怎样》讲的是记述的价值，能看出视听想要营造出一个沉思的感觉，用孩子的叙述来自我安慰自我解脱真是成人世界的惯用技法，当然我们可以用畅想来解放自我，但是用精心写好的只是借孩童之口说出的台词就只是空中楼阁，现实多的是无法挣脱的“在你面前”，影片呈现的成长和解只不过是套着思维公式的自我解释和循环论证
不似《婚姻故事》般热烈，不似《海边的曼彻斯特》般阴郁，不似《废柴舅舅》般搞怪，两个怪胎的相互陪伴，这是再平常不过的剧本。
适合一个人窝在角落看的电影，两代人心灵伤痛的症结沟通。导演从一开始就埋下的暗线：以原生家庭为起点的生长环境给后代以及后代的后代酿造的悲剧。性格深处的伤痕塑造了人的方方面面，引来或是被引向相似的人，然而悲哀的是没有人能够解决这一切，在自我挣扎中走向灭亡仿佛是宿命。
电影很奇怪，以一种文本密集的姿态登场，却只有非常少的信息量，几次以为要触及问题的核心，几次又绕了过去，最后只能落在一个不痛不痒的地方，稍稍有点尴尬了。
试图努力分辨文艺的抒情和真实的纪录之间的界限，初衷是觉得在真人（？）采访和舅甥关系的刻画之间存在着一定的割裂。虽然生活很艰难，但最终会被治愈，光是这个理念就让我很难受。
just bc someone isnt like u, doesnt mean that they are wrong.
两星半。很温柔的电影，我喜欢里面的摄影空镜构图，很生活化，很活在当下。因为黑白画面又有复古感。我对华金真的没太大感觉，我爱他哥哥。但太文艺了，太啰嗦了，这大段大段的对白又长又多又矫情，每一个字我都懒得看。还有养小孩可真他妈烦人。
很温馨很沉闷的片子，采集到的声音真好听啊，但是滤波得到的信号就是真实的吗？
今夜月色真美。
Wilmette Theater。像Joaquin Phoenix会接的戏（他似乎一直对next generation的生活状态抱有一种悲观主义）一些纪录片技法+声效的运用挺有趣 大小两主演演技极好。黑白美则美也 意义似乎不大 浮于表面形式。不论从剧作 呈现形式 还是主题意义上都略显肤浅。片子像一个休闲下午随意喝了杯淡淡的气泡酒 喝完易忘 甚至不打嗝儿。
啊吧啊吧啊吧啊吧，海边曼彻斯特式的剧情结构，诚实沟通面对解放自己，永恒不变的主题
不给细分。因为这部电影太“我”了。它适合一个小孩，一位家长，或者一个像我一样有很多疑问却得不到答案的青少年。
Miles总是给每个角色最大的尊重，在他的电影里每个人都值得被爱被倾听。这部新作剧作层面明显不如前两作，但依然保持着细腻敏感。孤儿扮演这个设定很绝，侄子和叔叔互相拯救，依然保留学习成长的主题，温柔真的可以拯救一切。
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