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.
我还是觉得韩国恐怖片在创意这一点上，二十年来就没什么长进，虽然十个故事里的演员演技都不尬，颜值也挺高，但也没法掩盖剧情本身的白烂……优点是，可以轻松地打发掉2个小时的休息时间~
可能因为是短篇集锦，所以导致每个故事看起来有种无厘头的感觉，逻辑就更不用说了。
故事来源导演个人经历，找的男演员实在和导演太像了，私人情感和社会问题的融合。通过大量梦境将拍摄手法逐渐带离平实。不知导演是否确实想达到令人困惑的效果。街舞比赛情怀在前半段多次铺垫，后半段下落不明。90分钟的电影，不填的话尽量少挖坑。
恐怖现象都挺夸张的，老梗是挺多，主要靠jump scare，但依然是只敢眯着眼睛看...人体模特那个感觉最好，冥婚的小哥感觉最帅
城中村拆迁，小镇青年无处安放的青春，很贾樟柯。很中国。
密室逃脱失败，变成失踪者。
故事性太差，编剧粗俗，洗澡有鬼手帮忙摸头是很恐怖，但是不需要乱用好吗？冥婚的目的，就是要找一个无辜的老公，有事没事用鬼脸吓他？这是冥婚？还是对观众智商的侮辱！
年轻导演处女作，就当了解一下柬埔寨的生活和文化了
冗长中带有温馨和诡异，梦境拍得很舒服，做了同款的梦
小城小镇青年的伤疼总能吸引贾樟柯的帮助吧 LFF
爱美的容貌焦虑女孩被镜子里的鬼害死
恐怖片实在是拍不出新意了。之前看了两眼机翻字幕啥也没看懂，终于有个正常字幕了，感觉看没看懂也无所谓了。。
一部当代柬埔寨社会问题的聚焦与缩影，以小见大的手法比较高明，时代变迁下的小人物在风雨飘摇下成长。视听优秀。节奏略拖沓。#5th PYIFF#
注定倾倒的白色大厦，所有梦境回廊也被夷为平地。
2021 PYIFF 7.0 卧虎单元 把“白色大厦”这一建筑作为贯穿个体经验的阐释，同时隐喻城市化进程中“被拆迁”的建筑，和家庭的拆解。但视听语言的特有嗅觉掩饰不了叙事的衰弱。过分缓慢的节奏承载不了“城市变迁”、“童年经验”、“家庭拆解”三部分的主题表达。注定是面向自我的自拍，无法面向他者
纯视觉刺激片，不要考虑逻辑，就是寻个新鲜，好在其中男女颜值都很高哈。
看出了科长的影子，但太青涩了。视听啊音乐啊很多方面还需要雕琢。人物更是几乎没有。但还是鼓励吧，柬埔寨需要他们这样的人。一个战乱的国家，希望世界和平
前1/3还行，越往后越拉垮，模仿大师没错，但别请他做监制，会束手束脚吧。
看起来好像都拍了，其实什么也没拍，因为什么也不会改变。
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