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.
这群人讨论600万人的生死 居然那么从容淡定 细思极恐有没有？ 这个版本做了一些改编 资料是绝密的 甚至会议纪要都是要求销毁处理 这个里面最后都发出去了？
一個理想主義者生活在一個豬圈般的社會中就是一個悲劇
与其说是看电影，不如说像是在欣赏影响化的文学作品，琐碎絮叨又散发着脆弱迷人的气质，台词都非常文学性。印象最深的是男主写给女主试镜用的独白信，以及二人隔着玻璃的那个吻，看到中间就能预感到结局应该是悲剧的，但至少悲剧是发生在纳粹上台之前，仍保有一丝的美好。
十几人围坐着，自以为天降大任，实际各有所图地讨论怎样有秩序有效率地“清零”，这是人类历史上最卑劣的一段存在。
2 有一個差錯 導致了悲劇 如「羅密歐與茱麗葉」
1 有一個大反派 導致了悲劇 如「天鵝湖」
四颗星都给汤姆·希林，太棒了！影片各种炫技，声色犬马的柏林，支离破碎的柏林，山雨欲来风满楼的柏林，一个史学博士在时代潮流中风雨飘摇。片子太长，裸体太多，还有，读博士和博士后啥的是会被同门害的，毕不了业的......
从数学上来说，这是一次零和交易，两个人拥有的金额与之前相同，但善意不会因此抵销，
透露着纯真柔软的情欲和爱还是很打动人的，像初生的孩童不断沉入海里。剩下的，交给贫穷和时代的叹息。
当作恶的链条足够长，长到里面的每一个环节都看不到两端的时候，那么他们每一个人都会觉得自己是无辜的。
“生活是最有趣的一份工作”
恐惧和仇恨的声音不能再高过思想和心灵的，人类尊严的时代即将到来。理性和权力不能兼有。
扯回来，理想主义者的困局在于实在没法改变那些自己早已设想过多次的东西，突然想起汤姆希林在我们的父辈中扮演的角色和法比安也有几分相似之处，不管是post-war还是pre-war，不管是柏林还是巴黎，流动的盛宴都在宴席和个人心中诞生、幻灭着，而泽尔达和黛西永远都在绿光的那一侧。无法寄希望于存在主义改变的现状，无奈的逆水行舟，友情爱情亲情理想像多米诺骨牌一般逐个倒下，也许我们最终都只能选择退守内心，做一个麻木的君士坦丁。
一间屋，一张桌，一群人的杀人计划。这些德国人真的严谨得可怕。数据分析得精密，方案考虑得周全，还处处为成本着想，非常有条理。而这些严谨，用在大屠杀上，是无法言语的恐怖。
Just generally a really good movie if you like independent cinema.
德国式的仅仅有条减少了部分既视感，不过既视感依然强烈。犹太人要不是那么听话守秩序，纳粹清理他们时一定效率达不到那么高。施害和被害双方通力合作虽然过程不算愉快但结果很是惊人。
前一小时过于吸引我，以至于忽略后半部分的冗长与平庸。
我在德累斯顿电话旁有烟蒂陪睡
“谁不喜欢和平？但我们这一代只能做出牺牲，我们就是德意志民族的医生，为国家去除生病的毒瘤.......”“为邻居铲除屎，他们还不乐意吗？”围绕最终解决方案讨论的主要是运输和“处理”的经济性，国民会不会反抗，对国内工业技术人才流失是否有影响，混血犹太人如何处理等等来展开。觥筹交错之间，决定了几百万人的生死。
故事并不新鲜，但是仍旧像一首长长的现实文学叙事诗 何去何从 看着形形色色不同的人们 却无所适从 喜欢那句“生活是一个有趣的工作”。 略讽刺政治 战争。汤姆希林拍的很有味道 有点阴郁 低沉。午夜电影很推荐。
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