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.
老少咸宜实为创作的枷锁。其实这个设定还是搭起了很好的文本框架的，无论是政治结构、历史话语还是社会分工都有很大的演绎空间，结果被PG挟持到了最乏味那个走向去，彻底瓦解了编排这些能指的意义。幻想一下如果是（曾经的）吉卜力来拍可能还会更有趣…年迈的我如今再看迪士尼，魔法褪去大厦将倾，彼此成全的幻梦在风雨飘摇中苦苦支撑，大人们心知肚明：有些东西塌了是无法重建的，再建起来的也绝对不是从前的复制品。一曲终了，最后的回味徘徊于“哀我童真不复”与“哀这现实太残酷”之间，无味也无所谓。
两位女主都很美 故事本身平淡 但整体却非常流畅
太长了，九十分钟的体量比较合适。结尾还是挺不错的，这种救赎戏码永远对我有效。双女主的颜值是我已经在脑子里帮她们写好浪漫番外的程度。
Laurent的镜头还是很美的。海报实在太糙了。
Girls help girls and fuck the patriarchy. 主演之一就是导演有被惊喜到，又被法国女演员蛊到了。
Nous sommes libres, nous sommes fortes, nous sommes éternelles.
似乎法国电影都这样，感觉有很多内容，但是脑子里又感觉不出来该说些什么，女演员真的是自然衰老型，那么多年好像没做过医美，真好。片子里既有女人为自由而抗争，又影射了妥协的女人在那个时代，看上去正常，其实也是疯子，就好像疯人院的女护士一样，看管着精神病，其实自己也是。最经典的是那个舞会，那晚上根本分不出来谁是疯子谁是正常人，把人变疯的就是心里失去了约束的恶。
比疯子更疯的是专制下父权社会里的“正常人”。
唯一不满意的就是那个屌没被割下来，我想看他痛苦狰狞的面孔。我想看他被爆菊花口喷屎的惨样，我想看他被肢解的美丽画面。
独立自由思想的女性在父权眼里就是通灵的异端女巫，医院精神病院就是宗教裁判所。但是本片电视剧质感，缺乏亮点。
前半段设定还不错，结尾越来越拉跨，这电影就不应往合家欢PG-13方向走。
以疯子为名将你开除人籍，然后便可以随意宰制，为所欲为。
她们本身没有病，是在疯人院被人逼出病来的。 女人之所以成为女人，不是天生的，而是后天形成的。 看得很压抑的一部片子。
能够通灵的女主被送进精神病院，最终在护士长的帮助下成功逃离，涉及了不少流行的主题，女性的互相帮助，女性受到的精神压迫等，但笔力不是很到位，欠点火候。
动画片，给小朋友看的。。。不需要你们成人世界那么复杂的分析。。。简单多好。有几个场景印象特别深刻：女主和壮姐姐得对话那段；女主去追邋遢哥那段；还有女主尴尬去找花姐姐那段，尤其她房间里，美极了。
自导自演，好优秀。如今的自由来之不易。法国可以，我们的未来，应该也可以。
这部电影带来的感受是奇特又奇妙的，难以用语言形容，别的电影是观众被剧情吸引同喜同悲，这部电影却给人断片式的观影体验，怎么说呢，似乎是音乐引领观众而非剧情，像优秀的散文，观众每每就会停在某段回味思索，而忽视了剧情的持续，这种情况出现好几次我才发觉，我是认真观看思想没有抛锚，发现这点后，我让自己集中精神观看，然而思想依旧会在某刻停滞，或为一个镜头或是一段感情，这种奇特的观影体验让我觉得这部影片具有某种奇妙的魅力，看后久久难忘，可惜导演没能把这种技巧贯穿全片，影片后段回归普通，以剧情带动观众，没了那种断片式的体验，像没了灵魂。
很《百年孤独》了，一家几代人的爱恨情仇不管命运怎么变迁依然不离不弃相聚在一个屋檐下，部分歌舞场景还是很有想象力的，最好听的是西语那首。但价值观有点不合时宜了，如果家庭是原罪，又何必不离不弃？“让家人骄傲”的slogan也未免太老旧太不符合迪斯尼如今LGBT老巢的称号。
1/10@川沙大光明 座椅还蛮舒服的，及格拉美唱唱跳跳弘扬老一套家族价值meh （反完美主义 / peer pressure/ 回归平凡之路这类议题都是蜻蜓点水）最好听是西语歌，画面仍想象力及格但框架中庸，引起兴趣的反而是政治背景
以通灵为切入，以女性为视角，以反抗为收尾，表达着女性抗争的主题。记住，可怕的不是鬼，而是那些如鬼般的人！
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