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.
冲着印度拍这个题材我才勉强加了1星，这么高的分属实不明白。男主出来前整体节奏表演还比较流畅自然，他是印度hxm吗，总是在定格表演，再加上出戏的配乐。这么气人的故事居然拍这么平……
70 本来想说咋你们印度人也搞这种“青天大老爷是好的坏的都是下面的”套路，但是吧... 算了。
感觉是现实意义比较重大，作为一部电影和一个故事来看，影片的叙事节奏过于拖沓，充满了无关紧要的细枝末节，和这样高的评分应该有的影片质量比较不符合。
印度这样也真的是无力吐槽，人心有善恶，有的冷淡却无诡诈，有的亲密却多两面，冷静下来，不忘初心，你才能找回自己的路。
断断续续看完，印度真是歌舞的国度，一段黑暗的历史，拍的很励志的感觉
好片，不得不说印度还是敢拍的，种姓制度拖累了他们。
第一次觉得 英雄式的运镜和人物展现 是麻痹现实暴政和痛苦的麻药
印度版《辩护人》，有关社会底层如何对抗体制，2小时40分钟，需要静下心看。
印度电影和韩国电影敢于刺破黑暗的这份勇，真的令人肃然起敬！
7分左右，过于冗长，其中穿插的歌曲也是很让人出戏，估计印度人民喜欢吧，有些台词不错，但法庭上的张力不够，这种题材主要体现的就是冲突，对抗，心灵上的碰撞，而印度片却很喜欢在案件本身上下功夫着重描写，以至于人物显的很平，这点宋康昊的辩护人就直接秒杀了，该平静的时候平静，该爆发的时候爆发，把观众的情绪在恰当的时机点燃，而不是四平八稳的看一场审判这么简单。这部电影到底是把重心放在悬案的解题，还是放在律师的破案技巧，还是为种姓问题付出的心血，还是刻画底层人民没有尊严的生活，导演什么都想要，所以拉了不少时长，有些戏一场足够，太多就满了，离佳片还有不少差距
不行，各种尖叫得头疼。走向很明确的电影，真实的事件却把人物拍得那么纸片那么假。
向张思之、浦**、朱明勇、斯伟江、伍雷、徐昕、李庄等所有在黑铁时代坚持发出黄金辩词的中国法律人致敬！
非常赞同一个哥们的回复，一个蛆爬出来说大家都在粪坑里，恰恰表明大家确实都在粪坑里
虽然男主走路带风，但却没有被黑警暗杀。虽然印度贫富悬殊，却可以做到司法独立。
电影拍摄的旋律是C大调，但这种明快相信并不是事情的全貌，如果邪恶如此轻易就能被打败，就不会有持续了这么多年的种姓制度。虽然我觉得这部电影是唱给底层人民的嘹亮战歌，但不晓得这些底层人民是否有途径看电影，感觉仅是维持生存就已经要耗尽他们所有的精力，电影可能还是太奢侈了些。
印度电影和韩国电影敢于刺破黑暗的这份勇，真的令人肃然起敬！
可惜我们无法在中国电影里看到个人对体制的诘问。
本该扫除罪恶的人却制造罪恶，是罪恶中之最。
印度版辩护人，能拍出这样的电影，至少让那些底层人民看得到一丝曙光。
“这将是一场艰苦的战斗。”
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