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.
怎么说呢，就像深秋夜晚凉意下的一个warm hug，直击身体触及心头的一股暖流，不觉中已是热泪盈眶…Andrew小天使太美好了，像恰恰村的洪班长，又像才华横溢的多兰…
大概是最愚蠢的一种剧本做法，简陋到梅艳芳年表式流水账，后半段拍得也很敷衍。吃相最难看的，大概就是纪录影像和电影素材的混剪，不断提醒着观众——王丹妮和导演只不过是一部本应更真实更卖座纪录片可怜的赝品。可悲的是，我明知这一切是在消费记忆，消费那逝去时代和那些故人，但不免仍会动情，仍会唏嘘怅惘。仍会更愿意活在这电影里，而非当下。
資料堆砌的一部電影。主角全身都在話俾我地聽，我就係演緊梅艷芳我就係在做戲，生硬地學她語氣學她姿勢背她台詞⋯⋯同埋避之不談種種真正梅姐值得尊敬的原因，也規避種種敏感⋯甚至好多人都唔講中文名⋯冇乜意思⋯不過都係賺到我眼淚，因為那些人那個時代，既懷念又唏噓⋯（睇戲時最開心是見到好多熟悉‘新’人面孔；and 好L想去紅館喔
首先自然要向梅艳芳致敬！但电影本身则在历史的话题性中迷失了自己，受客观审查与主观能力的制约，呈现出的内容作为一部传记片来说是相当不及格的，观众甚至要依靠个人私下对叙述主体的了解来参透整部作品所交代的信息，而一旦如此，电影似乎变得浅显起来，且仍还要依靠大量的真实素材进行某种缓释，充斥着对人物生平毫无敬重的流水账式剥削与消费，既未见得巨星又未见得凡人，只有一则则小报标题般的粗糙渲染。在优质沙盘式类型文本的“寒战”系列与《赤道》后，听闻所谓的“梁陆”组合早已名存实亡，但继续探索“香港”这具躯体肉身与魂灵归属和占有的问题，依然是此次单飞的梁乐民的表达重点，梅艳芳与张国荣的离去，实际是香港之死，奈何这出本来沉重的寓言因信息的千疮百孔而无从建立，“夕阳之歌”的意义，在影像中被大幅度贬值。中岛步未来可期。
Quite rich on the emotional level
那首熟悉的《夕阳之歌》一响起，眼泪就不自觉地落了下来。以前觉得没办法体会花大价钱去看演唱会的人，现在觉得如果有喜欢的偶像，一定要去看一次她的演唱会。
7 青春期持续的迷惑、心动、希望与妥协。会俗 但这就是我们会经历的。漂亮的日子 还是很丝滑的
到后面真的好怕来个车祸俗套收尾，还好大家都很理智move on
剧情走向水到渠成 最后被女主未婚夫谢谢保护孩子时男主哭的一塌糊涂 这是最难承受的时候 也是最能让自己成长的时候
how sweet！导演对22岁的体验与表现实在是细致入微，另外Dakota Johnson演hot mum真是太会了
确实丝滑，温情向，一个关于成长的故事，男主有点像DTT
这种比较近的传记电影是免不了有些流水账，毕竟有些人和事不能全拍出来，可以理解。电影没有胡乱夸大编排，给了梅姐充分的尊重，但是情节不够细腻生命力不足略显平淡。
各方面都非常不自然。张国荣这个演员是大败笔
希望多关注阿梅的演艺事业、为人处世和慈善事业，少一些捕风捉影。
好看 治愈。和ziyi 在Charles Theatre的一场电影。他带了实验室顺来的巧克力和焦糖味的马卡龙，以及蓝莓干。
拍得也太烂了，整个流水账，主角演员表演痕迹过于明显，整个很假，台词语气很tvb，用嘟嘴来模仿梅艳芳的厚嘴唇也是最糟糕的一个方法了，现在什么化妆不能做到？一个人物传记电影演成这样太可恨了，服装道具什么的也很不用心，有资料片放在一起衔接还能做得那么不像也是醉醉的，还有渣男洗白的感情戏，2个半小时电影搞穿插回忆，当观众阿兹海默了吗？哥哥那段哭的惨惨一个锤玻璃把我眼泪收回去了！还不如剪个资料片合集！
我知道如果这不是梅艳芳的传记，我肯定不会喜欢这部作品，但银幕上呈现的就是梅艳芳的故事，好几处地方都让我泪眼婆婆，所有的感动都是因为她，以及那个年代的香港光影。
食物链的顶端果然是姐姐，暧昧归暧昧，但想要谈严肃婚恋就立刻人间清醒（没有贬义）。
（满意与否？任何个人无法代表“梅迷”群体发言）小小欢乐：梅艳芳、香港女儿：梅艳芳。
听我一句劝 不如花这两小时看看梅姐的告别演唱会
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