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.
一个被关20年刑满出狱的颓废女，社会关系完全断裂，被歧视被贴上once a cop killer, always a cop killer 标签。找工作不易，谈恋爱不易….更主要的是自己亲人不相认，受害人家属不放过等等。这部发生在西雅图的故事，果然色调阴郁，气氛压抑，而且因为情节不夸张，故事贴近现实生活，才愈发令人深思，对曾犯过错但已服刑赎罪的人，社会应如何包容接纳？
好感人！剧中女主无奈说出“她只有5岁，她只有5岁”时才知道其实杀死警察的不是她而是只有5岁的妹妹。这是什么样的爱，姐姐把一切都自己扛起，为了妹妹的将来。影片很感人，最后妹妹的拥抱是妹妹已经记起来以往了吗？一切尽在不言中。
看女主给养父母发火 真是无语。妹妹啊 这又是谁的错的？兄弟俩明显哥哥帅 果然戏份多些
美国人在把电影拍生动这件事上越走越远，美国人在写剧本这件事上做到了自寻死路。但是再怎么穷途末路，也会有人去欣赏，欣赏那坨被抬上神殿的骨灰。
虽然上次看Sandra Bullock还是《Birdbox》，本片赞！
7.5，每个演员都很棒，情绪持续压抑，不断累积，到了宣泄的临界点，却戛然而止，啊，这种时候就知道不文艺的俗套模式的好了，我们希望这些苦人儿解脱，希望他们从此过上幸福的生活，那些真实生活不给我们的，我们希望多多少少能在电影里圆梦
虽然上次看Sandra Bullock还是《Birdbox》，本片赞！
律师行见养父母那场戏，
演得确实不错，但每个转折点都so predictable
62/100。同为对社会边缘女性进行关注的影片，本片与哈莉·贝瑞的《伤痕累累》似乎可以对照着看，但区别于后者描绘得一知半解的态度转变，本片女主角桑德拉·布洛克饰演的这个角色从头到尾的人物性格都是始终如一的，她对于想要去庇护的妹妹跨越二十年的爱让整部电影的情节很难不坚实而饱满，想让它显得支离破碎都会在最后被团成一团。但是问题在于，其他支线都写的太过于散漫了，后继者和报复者的性格转变毫不符合现实地纯粹为剧情服务，失去了本片原本能传达出来的更为强烈的真实感与动人程度，甚至会有一种“这个角色真的有必要存在吗”的多余感。
6.5/10
剧本太差，一点都不抓人。演技再好也拯救不了。
影片不是不好，只是不“流行”而已。这种程式化的救赎主题曾经无往不利，靠类似的角色和表演形式的演员也曾频获奖项。桑德拉•布洛克的表演没问题，只不过影片本身“过时”，所以她得奖概率渺茫，建议她还是一起卷入同性影片的大军中吧。
At first I thought it would talk about restorative justice vs punitive justice. As story unfolding it shows different social classes in America and how people from these classes think and act.
被Sandra Bullock圈粉。长兄为父，长女为母，姐姐的爱那么深沉厚重，让人不禁潸然泪下。或许正因为她的爱如此浓，妹妹二十年后也忘不掉一起相处的五年。五岁前我真的没有记忆，爸爸说他扛着我去动物园，带我去坐滑梯，完全没有印象。但是每次看到爸爸扛着儿子的画面我都会多看两眼，也许内心深处我也是有记忆的吧。以及梦里肉龙的香味，别的小朋友抢我的玩具......
真相大白前觉得不可理喻，觉得律师老婆和女主的对峙句句在理，真相大白后又是另一种不可理喻。
张弛有度，收放自如！
故事不错，演技更没得挑，只是节奏偏慢了一些，但可能再快的话就不够细腻和震撼了，根据美剧改编的，原版的剧集应该不错。
演得确实不错，但每个转折点都so predictable
她承受了生命不可承受之重 她挽救了三个年轻人的一生 最后一幕感动了
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