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.
你以为的偶然，其实都是必然……如果不曾卑微错过忘不了，就不会后悔自责梦醒了，谁都不是什么好马，都在狂吃回头草。
第二个故事完成度最高，第一个次之，第三个可惜缺了个更有力的结尾。当全世界的电影都在花样百出的时候，日本却推出一个回归故事本身的导演。摄影、灯光、美术、明星、音乐等等都退居其次，只剩下台词和表演，这种的制作在大部分电影体系里都是不够行业标准的，但居然也看得津津有味，甚至屡屡有惊喜。成不了经典，但既是一种回归，也是一种突破。
11/4/2021 @ 文化中心[hkiff]。故事上最喜歡第三個。濱口龍介果然還是拍indie好！這次把當年夜以繼日的失望完全一掃而空！！(QA聽到下一部是商業作而且改編村上春樹又開始擔心起來....)
三段戛然而止的人生片段，轻灵得像小夜曲的高潮，只有一幕一幕的场景连缀着对话如串珠啪嗒啪嗒的落下，结束之时，又谈不上结束，想问“后来呢”，却也没有后来。只留下怅然若失意犹未尽的情绪。
人人都夸滨口的台词高级，可我心目中高级的台词应该是比利怀尔德那种让人拍案叫绝或是伍迪艾伦那种让人会心一笑的台词，至于滨口么，emmm只能说我好几次都因为台词太绵密而开始心不在焉地玩手机→_→虽然但是对第二个故事还是挺喜欢的，很意想不到的发展和结局。
是我喜欢的类型！停在最后一个拥抱感觉很美好。
也太好了 滨口龙介可能是这一代里最有才能的那一个
看一半就感受到了洪常秀，镜头语言上。文本上不像，在情绪递进中以不稳定的控制关系推向反转的边界很棒，情绪张力弥补了单一故事线的平淡。个人偏好1，2的大包袱（邮件）略生硬，3有点傻不是很能get到
第二个故事精彩超乎想象，对话之中有一种细腻的互相试探的关系。
2.不管是在原著还是历史事件里，玛格丽特如果不信任丈夫，两人没有感情，她绝不会开口陈述事实。这次决斗实际上是两人一同发起的一次反抗，而导演却只将道德上正义的反抗放在女主这边，让Jean的行动都出于所谓自私和荣誉，why？？
如果没有第三个故事，整部电影就非常普通了。最后，如果错过了，希望今后各位都能解开心结。
到现在最喜欢的一部滨口龙介，每个故事都很值得玩味，都有很迷人的女性角色，最喜欢第三个，完美诠释了偶然与想象的内涵
喜欢2开门念书这张力、3中学时我们喜欢的那个女生
一系列的偶然，是日常；一系列的想像，是生活。将日常生活拍得如此舒服温柔，又充满了一丝的诗意，残酷和孤独。实在是妙哉～
哈哈哈哈片子里的那个非常“生猛”的推镜头，还以为我在看洪尚秀的电影🌝人物之间的对话，巧妙的关系设置还是很让人回味的，很多想象的空间
基本全靠对白的电影我真的少见又少见
从红长袖的《引见》出来 哇 日本电影真养眼 演员好看顺眼剧情也顺 舒坦了 尤其喜欢第二个故事 那个老教授简直就是我的理想型之一 要老 要有文化 要体面讲究
还是一些文本结构的尝试，以及人物和关系的表里多面性挖掘，多了些洪尚秀的影子。（从东出昌大到中岛步再到甲斐翔真，滨口怎么看都像迷恋高个男人的基佬）
PS：被朱迪·科默美到！
三个故事：3星、4星、5星。第一个故事不免让人想到洪尚秀，特别是那个推拉镜头；第二个故事，让人唏嘘，也很特别；最后一个故事，简直太动人了！我跟着哭得稀里哗啦……
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