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.
有时候，有时候，我会相信一切有尽头，相聚离开，都有时候，没有什么会永垂不朽。可是我，有时候，宁愿选择留恋不放手，等到风景都看透，也许你会陪我看细水长流。
把俗套的恋爱故事重新讲了一遍，故事还是毫无新意，但，却在各种细节各种安排下，观众一次又一次地被击中心脏。好编剧果然是神奇的一类物种。
这么多的小伏笔，滥用却受用。红眼含泪，哭颜不需要狰狞就足够有力。
学生时代的爱情“你够不够爱我”成为是否能在一起的首要检验标准。成年人的爱情“我想要的条件你是不是匹配”却成为了在一起的首要检验标准。大学生去看这个电影可能看不懂，但到我这个年纪看这部电影只会老泪纵横。
兴趣只是相互了解的一种方式，兴趣相投不是稳定关系的必要条件。当然，年轻时兴趣几乎是可控时间的全部，爱好相同的话一同度过共同的时间建立亲密关系会更容易一些，但也往往会产生以为心灵合二为一并能够持续到永远的错觉吧……走入社会后，兴趣不可能是生活的重心，柴米油盐、生活习惯、价值观、未来的计划等等都是更重要的事。恋爱如同花束，美丽但终究会枯萎，不过只要拥有过也是很幸运的一件事，反正对我来说他们那几年最美好的时光是我不敢奢求的。我从本质上大概还是一个现实主义者吧，我不会相信永恒、不会对热情的生命抱有期待、也不认为存在双方都不用妥协的亲密关系，生活本就是不断用回忆抵抗失望的过程，曾经拥有比完全没有要好上太多，这样想的话……或许能够装出一幅微笑并心怀祝福地告别的样子吧……
3.5星 其实分开的理由很容易想到，因为这就是大多数相爱却没走到最后的情侣的常态。裂缝的开始是因为男主女主步调不一致，工作和生活有了差距。男主的行为越来越现实，思想却越来越理想；而女主行为上保持着曾经的文艺情怀，行动却非常清醒。很喜欢女主的直率，坚持做自己喜欢的事，很清楚自己要什么，没有反悔分手。
别傻了，百分百契合的伴侣是不存在的。
文青式的爱情要被么生活打败，要么对理想幻灭，灵魂上的伴侣只可能发生在想象中传奇中。大多数恋爱一般只拍前半段，大多数家庭伦理片一般只拍后半段，这两者的割裂构成了大多数人对于爱情的想象。其实，爱情只是某个共享的时刻，无所谓长短，记忆会定格，此刻便永恒。
后劲可真大啊。餐厅那一对和我们好像，看着他们想到我们，不禁破防。
我爱上你时的内心活动。现在看来，我果然一点都不文艺了，哈哈~
把爱情拍成单纯的志趣相投还干一两年社畜就轻易把所有爱好舍弃掉的设定让人反感且火大（但短毛的soda狠狠get到了
怎么说呢，我现在的状态就是男女主初恋的状态，企图靠书影音来寻找soulmate，但看到这部电影，自信心略被打击，或许，有些爱情就是注定要错过，哪怕我们曾经那么相似，在还没有找到方法平衡理想与现实之前，世界是一个可以随时崩塌的地方
我只想趁早开次花。谢了就罢了。
做文青就是理想，变社畜就叫现实？大家都是二极管吗？
看到很多非常私人化的片段，用得很克制不至于过于琐碎，坂元裕二还是有点东西。
真的会有百分百契合的灵魂吗？真的很难得，事实上能70%已是足够幸运。男主说，我们像其他一样平凡的夫妻，哪怕没有之前的感觉了，还是可以一起过日子的。但就这样向生活低头吗？这不是想活成的样子
仿佛也跟着体验了一场细腻真实的恋爱，最后没有谁对谁错，只是彼此的步调和频率不再一致。果然还是校园时期最美好，进入社会你就必须接受各种现实，结尾那段真的看哭了
如此步调一致的两个人最终也会走向不同的方向。社会成功学对人洗脑得真快呀。感觉自己就是女主，进社会这么多年了还一直坚守着自己的那点爱好过活，在别人眼里就是没长进没出息。
两人都努力仍然不会走到最后
终究是逃不出兰因絮果啊……那些恋爱中的小细节，刻画的太生动了……
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