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.
哪怕芳仪与母亲间的关系如此剑拔弩张，电影的叙述也静水流深。方郁婷的好不可否认，但阮凤仪的女性视角也为影片投注了更多的温柔，相信这个叫「仪」的女孩多少也带着导演的私人记忆吧……
林嘉欣这次演出了不一样的感觉，有张静初的味道了。
电影挺细腻的，关于移民身份，关于母女关系，妈妈因为患癌把两个女儿带回台湾，又重新和爸爸组成一家四口，确实是个很有故事性的切入点，很久没看林嘉欣演的戏，她还是那么静如止水，却很有力量。
幾乎從頭哭到尾，不斷想起最自我最任性的那個小女孩時期的我，兒時的我完全無法控制自己的叛逆和情緒。爸媽一定很辛苦吧，如果沒有父母無盡的包容和愛，我現在應該是個反社會亞逼，不管遇到什麼事情，只要跟媽媽說幾句話就會被治愈，獲得平靜。能安撫到這樣暴戾的我的媽媽，一定很辛苦吧。
#2021金馬影展# 押本屆最佳劇情長片得主甚至是大贏家，方郁婷是魔鬼吧！與林嘉欣的打架戲是讓我眼淚破防的一段。在台灣電影看見台詞這麼自然又和諧有多難得！莊凱勛沒入圍也好可惜。不是《淑女鳥》也不是《夢想之地》，僅僅只是親情間的羈絆，「媽媽很愛妳，妳知道嗎。」
她的恐惧会成为我的恐惧 她的软弱会使我软弱
近几年来，台湾电影颇有中兴之势，其深层原因，很可能与18年金马事件有关。大陆的终止合作，使得不少台湾电影人才回归本岛。有人才有戏，这是无可辩驳的道理。
先看了《米纳里》再看的这部 觉得东亚的亲情都好苦 生活也很苦 虽然生活本来就苦 但怎么亲情都爱得这么苦啊 唉 中间有几场吵架太共情了看得我爆哭 但我为什么要因为吵架触动呢
「在这个世界上，我最不想要成为的人是我的母亲，因为她的恐惧，会成为我的恐惧，而她的软弱，会使我软弱。」
其实扛起琐碎才是最难得的，因为它不断消磨人的耐心，包括那些天真、希望。
背景和故事内容相似，却比瀑布流畅太多了。结尾仓促了些。
PS.中二的小棉袄漏风，当真很麻烦！
试图表达很多，但想表达的又都被蜻蜓点水一般的就带过去了。
壳子不错，内容没有填的很深刻，起码是没有让人心头一震或者深深回味的部分。戏剧冲突有了，戏剧冲突没有体现出来。只能说在我这很一般。
那种压抑但又无法彻底爆发的氛围还是拍得蛮到位的，大女儿面临的文化冲突其实可以再深挖一点。说实话，林嘉欣饰演的这个母亲角色的脾气，如果放到现实生活中的话，已经算是挺好的了，现实生活中的很多中国家庭实在是太压抑了，比影片中更为压抑。PS：林嘉欣还是那么美，现在更多了一份温婉的气质。
很棒，真的在某個侷限的地方中完成的很好的作品。每個部門都交出非常漂亮的成績單。觸動少女成長的幾個瞬間固然動人，可是最後卻似是未完成一個結尾，問題可能出在她沒分清楚是講家庭還是講少女成長（當然理解是都想要講，但問題是真正最核心的是哪一個）。by the way 三個主演都極好，但最令我深刻還是林嘉欣，去醫院坐著被護士弄化療那一顆鏡頭，不過分演繹而是給出了真正的靈光，就是影后級別的演出。
家的本质是摇摇欲坠，为了能不破碎的生活下去，要对外防御，势必向内就会封闭。里面的女孩和女儿下辈子想当一匹马，女人和妈妈下辈子想当男人，后来离开“家”无论去了哪里都容易回到原点。没有读出来的演讲稿很好，芳仪想套住她以为的splash哭着说please i need u，发现不肯屈服的它不就是自己，而自己不就是妈妈吗，哭着哭着就被迫明白了，演得很动人。
*最后十分钟崩溃哭到无法呼吸
非典时期，台湾也是深受影响的。也是对当下疫情的一种观照。
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