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.
虽然时局日坚，理想还是要有的，且要有实现理想的勇谋
2021.10.10 其实还是拍得挺好看的，我能给3.5星，节奏适当，制作不错，演员方面方中信谭耀文鲍起静曾江廖启智都压得住场面，年轻一辈的张建声很出彩，陈家乐一般，配乐对情绪渲染得很厉害，几场抒情段落也不拉胯。但本片最大的问题在于，作为一部港式主旋律的律政片，它宣扬的本应是是抗争官商勾结、争取真相与公义、用法律维护底层大众权益的价值观，片中主角方屡遭阻碍的压抑和结尾雷有辉的演讲也印证了这一点，但最后导致局势逆转的关键来自于相关利益方的内讧，如果不是死者父亲在发现真相后运用自己的势力告倒真凶（其中还要男主冒着犯法风险打擦边球），黑恶势力只怕是难以被撼动的。如果这真不是导演拍主旋律不小心跑偏了的话，那就只能解释为导演在说反话
三星半吧，因为故事情节基本和猜测一致！没啥难度！但是不知不觉就看完了，另外方中信也挺帅的。
这种类型的港片，应该在80年代末就有了吧，30余年未有变化；方中信、廖启智、曾江等等的作品，80年代末也进入大陆了，30余年未有变化；老戏骨的戏是好，可是剧本是30年未有变化之套路！00后的人肯定不知道港片曾经居然那么辉煌过！
演技演技不在线 剧情牵强 用力过猛 看的原因是youtube免费……
一群老戏骨，可惜故事不行啊，法庭戏太草率了。
感觉像没有高潮，就很平缓的叙事，最后感觉还是资本家的胜利，如果不是有钱的爸爸，真要制裁有钱权的人，估计真会像隔壁沉默的真相那样惨烈吧，害
谭耀文还不错。
挺一般的 香港电影确实不行了20211103
还能一看的粤语电影，前半剧情铺垫是不错的，可惜尾端转折过于理想，编上复杂的情节却只有简陋的细节。
一般，我给两星半，如果拍成二十集电视剧会不会更好些？鲍起静、曾江、廖启智的演技很好啊
无功无过。司法公正正是目前香港社会所需要的。
哪里会有绝对的正义，最后一段陈词，就当是理想主义的自白。朋友多了路好走。
典型的hk擅长型商业题材类 并且能一直擅长下去的类型 差点忘记了是智叔的最后一部 没有新意没有悬疑没有惊喜 似乎已经猜透了这种由演员演技撑起来的剧情 但还是很受用
每次看到关于律师题材的片就会非常羡慕律师
片子逻辑牵强，实现正义的手段也值得商榷，多给一星是给各位香港男星对自己的要求和身材管理，每出现一位，我都在想，哇……，他多大年纪了哦~，身材和状态还这么好~~
这叫打官司吗？最后就是说服有钱老板舍弃利益集团把谋杀自己女儿的真凶绳之以法的故事啊！换个没钱没权的试试？
这个谭耀文到处搞点客串啊，太理想了，也就不好玩了。像别人说的如果死者是个普通人咋办啊？
公义要靠非法手段实现，每个人都为实现公义付出代价，这是法制的悲哀，公义与法制间矛盾这种早已拍滥的题材，依然一直有人拍，而这种对法制的不信任，试问又是因何而成？
20211028戌时，睡着了
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