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.
天道好轮回.. P.S：魔兔几乎没有对手戏啊...
本意是讽刺资本家，但是看前半段我只觉得员工一个比一个不靠谱，后半段的讽刺力度也很弱，真实的职场要比这部片子讽刺多了。
美国梦，建立的基础是什么？这个问题应该不太复杂，资本主义。那么资本主义的核心又是什么？这个问题也很简单。那么资本主义有没有适合发展的时代，如今这个繁华世界，难道不是资本主义推动出来的吗？物质的繁华、科技的进步，背后都是有动力推动的。而资本是调动人们动力的最直接的一种力量。
好长 最后感觉就是个普通的故事 浪费卡司 虽然分那么低我都还是看了
华丽的空壳 属于眼睛得到了全方位享受 看完没留下任何余味的那类
天啊，这样的卡司，这样的布景，这样的摄影，拍出了一个什么玩意儿？可见剧本到底有多重要‼️
第一段如果不是小白兔我会以为自己下错了资源，后面就很有趣了，一直在猜片名说的是谁，不过最后我不是很理解就是了，直接去死不是更舒服些吗。
马戏团那一小时太过冗长了，要不是为了等到大魔王根本看不下去。进城之后的节奏一下子就对了，所有的贪婪、被包装成爱情的欲望、对“永不”原则毫不在意的放弃都随着宿命化为乌有。
值得称道一点的就是光影和凯布的表演……有些故事属于写了开头结尾就已然注定了。库珀之于本片男主约等于大本之于gone girl男主——气质是服帖的演技是没有的
天道好轮回.. P.S：魔兔几乎没有对手戏啊...
这是一部很任性的影片
非常喜欢，看完胆寒，特别是最后Stan面对陌生的马戏团老板和熟悉的话术，惨然说出I was born for it，把所有希望都切灭了！前半段马戏团的戏我看得津津有味，一点也不嫌长，和后半段形成呼应，太绝了！Bradley Cooper演得好，但是一开始感觉过于成熟，更像个中年男子。Cate气场太强大了，到哪都是女王！演员里一堆大熟脸。
“You don't fool people Stan, they fool themselves.”
三星半。是边缘人乡巴佬对美国梦的消解，无处不在的性格侧写和土法精神分析透示着上世纪40年代的美国人困在初始的父权制资本主义里，他们中的多数会用一生去疗伤，投射到电影里就是一个又一个不惜欺骗自己的“可怜人”，所以不光是男主角斯坦用存在主义消解美国梦，一般人也在这样的体系里自欺欺人。技术层面还是抓人的，前一小时的马戏团像是陀螺的个人趣味秀，优秀的美术和摄影创造出一个残酷又美丽的嘉年华。但是也拖慢了电影的节奏，甚至出现了很多无用角色，这也造成了虚假高潮和无用伏笔的问题，不过最后更改了原著结局，让电影“noir性”十足的同时，也告别了过去那种天真到有些不切实际的男女关系，也算没有白翻拍。
环境布置还不错，很有时代气息，展现出来的内容很不入肉，应该着重突出心理学方面的内容，把主角的成魔之路再刻画得深刻些。
消遣片
然而反观其内容本身，又一定程度上为其概念化、系统化的主题结构所束缚，其体量本身不足以承载如此繁杂的人物象征，亦难以在兼顾其系统的同时维持戏剧现实的节奏，故而在一些段落（由以高潮戏为甚）的处理上略显琐碎，繁杂，反而缺失了力量。
6.9分。有陀螺的美学打底让整部电影看起来稍微高级了一点，剧情从团长介绍开始大体就能猜出个八九不离十来。整体过下来各方面挺单薄，Key Point也来得很是生硬（我肯定不会自信到把钱存到一个我在酒会上认识没两天的人）。浪费了威廉·达福和托尼·科莱特，即使是凯特·布兰切特也就是个危险的美人。没什么二次咀嚼的欲望。
2.8 選角挺失敗的，最失敗的選角就是男主和心理醫生。布蘭切特的強大氣場已經成了一種能夠跳出故事的存在（這種每次一出場老娘碾壓死你的高位氣壓真的慎用）而庫柏太弱，老實人的臉演個魅力賊子總顯得有點蹩腳，老版的那種勢均力敵，棋逢敵手的氛圍全無，少了一層感受刺激。此外，全片的黑暗哪哪透出一股甜暖，填充一些視覺符號也是徒然，鏡頭太愛動了!差評嗚嗚
这是践行三天工作制前的西班牙？为啥能为了评选，还几乎996了呢？主配角从形象到个性都非常鲜明，可人物关系及伴随的冲突又过于简单粗暴。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
