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.
Hoping is waiting for someone else to do it
噫，三姑娘一出来还是这么的稳！德国小年青脸上嫩得能掐出水来但是端着一脸忧心天下的凝重，难以负担的Weltschmerz，只有经晓世事的熟女在循循善诱的点拨下才能化解。
政治是人类最深奥的学问。扮演希特勒的演员真心不行。
喜欢看小人物在大历史背景下的挣扎，浪潮推着大家一步步往前走，明知眼前是无路也会挣扎着走下去。喜欢夜晚两个人交错吸那同一支的香烟，万般愁苦。
一样的以民族自决的名义吞并，一样的大国在外交场上分配小国的领土，而这一次西方能吸取历史的教训么，一样的不能。
是我想拉国政猛男来看了并讨论的题材
如果非说张伯伦的决定为英法同盟争取来了一年的时间 我…？ / 双男主好帅 请让我偶遇paul的男演员吧
不算差，也不算惊艳的电影。手持一样晃动的镜头有代入感和现实感，作为一个讲历史故事的电影，画面的质感怀旧却不显陈旧。人物的塑造没有特别突出，无论是历史人物还是虚构人物，都并不是影片的重点，感觉人更多是为了故事情节服务的。当然，张伯伦那个角色的“天真”和“自私“是比较明显的，男主Hugh可以有更丰富的内容，比如他和妻子家庭的关系，小家庭与大家国的关系，即使不需要特别展开但现在也刻画得太浅。从叙事的角度，中规中矩，没有什么特别惊艳或令人可以拍案叫绝的叙事方式，伏笔的展开也不算深刻。
（Jeremy Irons演技占一星）
拍的不错。但最后给绥靖政策脸上贴金是不是太无耻了点
还行。纯纯当练听力了。铁叔和Jannis好帅啊……
Paul不是没有勇气对着希特勒扣下扳机，他为了信念中的新德国和昔日的爱人恨不得对着希特勒的脑袋清空弹匣，只是当他面对那个他曾经狂热追随过的元首时内心闪过了一丝“怜悯”，曾经的狂热也即将再次点燃。毕竟什么都无法改变的时候试一试又何妨？
拍的不错。但最后给绥靖政策脸上贴金是不是太无耻了点
我分不清Hugh Legat和Joe Alwyn
虚构的剧情和人设有点太假了，今日的乌东俄语区就是当年的苏台德地区，而欧洲人对纳粹的绥靖主义还在继续
其实学界最近几年就是要给张伯伦翻案，张伯伦因为与希特勒签订了条约牺牲捷克利益，成为绥靖政策的代名词，从而仿佛遗臭万年，但是只要稍微看看他之前做过什么事，就知道他确实是背黑锅了，值得翻案。一个不是从牛剑毕业的人，在短暂的首相任期，通过了限定工作时长、带薪休假、延长义务教育年限等规定，确实不值得成为右翼反共保守主义的丘吉尔的对立面。历史就是这样，找了张伯伦做替罪羊。乔治麦凯有些面瘫，建议加重面部表情的训练。演保罗的演员戴眼镜的时候太像詹姆斯迪恩了，可以安排一下呢！八月君这次第N次演了一个纳粹，但他却能演出不一样的层次，可见德国男演员没什么可演的了，以及一千个纳粹里他们互相都不一样呢。电影还是差点意思呢。人类从来没有从历史中吸取过教训，灾难战争一次次重演！
英德问题是：一个好战必亡 另一个忘战必危，导演借男主总结的话是扯jb🥚的，甚至和德国男2说的自相矛盾
明知道结局却还是对小人物抱着一丝注定落空的希望。
继ggad后又一对英国男人和他的致命德国男友。
张伯伦在对希特勒实施绥靖政策的同时也在采取重振军备的措施，以及1938年（或者说整个1930年代）英国糟糕的经济状态和战备情况导致其无力承担战争（张伯伦角色在电影中所说的台词“我只能打我手上有的牌”就是此意）——这些都是历史事实，反倒是令自从高中英语教科书之后除了微博博主文章就没读过其他历史类书籍的简中网友们大为惊诧了。“所谓希望，是指望别人出手做事来改变状况”，这句台词颇有内涵。
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