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.
标准的宝莱坞流水模式，开头我以为重看了旧片子，连配乐都如此类似。但正如高赞评论，至少人家还能拍电影含沙射影。
不知道怎么评价，唯有咋舌，一个无比粗糙的法制体系跟社会认知体系。或者这就是印度社会“法制的现实”。好不容易到了庭审阶段，又开始迷惑它到底要批判什么。我猜导演在下“一盘大棋”，但是没兴趣看完。
一直在反转，每次反转都揭露不同主题，像看了好多部电影。说是大爽片不为过。
一边跪，一边哭。
很明显，印度上层在积极推动社会革新，最近揭露社会弊端呼吁改变的电影密集上映，又新选出了一位底层女性总统，一切都在加速变化。本片片名敢用印度国歌的名字，可见一斑。
不要随便相信媒体的言论 普通人不要做被煽动的工具
翻转+翻转，指出了很多问题，但感觉都是各种煽动。民众和学生也太好煽动了。
印度这种时常的体量，至少有四十分钟是废话，拖沓得看着蛋疼。首先是整个悬疑的气氛，还是差口气，围绕一名女教授的死亡展开调查，背后牵扯出了各方势力。破案的过程，错综复杂的利益纠葛：这些应该是重点，而不是在法庭上的滔滔不绝。当然，最后的法庭戏，只能说是真的敢拍。对女性尊严的维护，对导师绝对权力的批判，对种姓制度的深恶痛绝，对平等、自由、正义的渴望吗，全都在那慷慨激昂的口若悬河里了。上层的丑恶嘴脸，对舆论的操控，对生命的漠视，一切不过是交易的砝码。直到，这些棋子本身的反噬。
如果律师真正辩护的就是那四位嫌犯，就算被害人是“完美”的，就算真实情况确实是四名嫌犯奸杀被害人，只要嫌犯一天没有受到法律的审判，就没有人可以判他们有罪，更不能用私刑。法律应该体恤民众，但更要超越民众的偏见。
这么高分怎么打出来的？立意起的很高，探讨的点也很多，通过一起案件牵扯出来各种社会面的问题，从政府到司法到媒体到人民，自上而下自下而上，问题蛮多，也不光是印度社会的问题，应该说每个国家都有的问题。但是，揭露这些阴暗面可以，能不能不要把观众当傻子，你看看那个法官还有律师都说的是些什么业余话术？最起码的职业操守都没有？说的话连个老百姓都不如。可信度瞬间就减了大半。而且这片子啊，一直在各种自我感动，几分钟就来一组慢镜头加史诗配乐，根本不给你机会好好搞清楚整个事件的流程。人物也单薄的可怕，每一个人都是工具人，根本不能称之为人物，稍微能看的就是法庭上那段，但是也各种穿插一些非常业余的对话，所以常常出戏。后面反转也就那样吧，没有上升到什么印度电影就甩我们几条街了，至少这片子不行，完全不行。
几个反转来得质感不足，没有营造出让观众信服的氛围就反转了，极其缺乏震撼。
总有人说，印度电影可真敢拍啊，韩国人可真敢拍啊，我有点怀疑，有没有一种可能，在某些地方拍片子并不需要那么多勇气，不需要克服什么恐惧感，也不存在什么敢或者不敢，人家只是正常拍个电影而已。
表达的内容多且精彩，能把故事讲好，气氛到位铺垫够转折合理，又有本土特色，给个好评不过分吧。
看了这部电影，感觉好多电影都是在狗刨…编剧神绝…
这也太棒了👏什么时候我们才有针砭时弊的题材呀，而且涉及的问题超级多。
四星，剧本，反转都很出彩，但最后10分钟信息量爆了，有些逻辑没理太轻。多一星给鼓励，印度电影最近真的勃勃生机啊~
这不如rrr叙事那么流畅，大陆观众看的是题材
不断反转之中，逻辑也合情合理。但是信奉甘地这个点我很不喜欢，非暴力不合作，本身就是”假革命“啊~
文化要自信，先要放开约束，绑手绑脚怎么自信？绑人的在那喊自信有什么用？
162分钟，结尾居然是这个……虎头蛇尾吧。
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