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.
看见这部片子的时候 廖启智老师已经去世了 为了他 五星
电影不应该拍的像TVB电视剧。情节是完整的，以前现在未来同样有逻辑联系。男主明显是古美门式的律师，正义但又不死板。问题在于本片看完，最大的感受是“正义要通过有钱才能打破”，并且所有的重大问题都是靠死者爸爸翻盘，这就丧失了一级指控的“指控”的重量表现内涵了——特别是找检控的时候，竟然只是花钱买问题？我还以为要体现检控辩护共锤真正的犯罪者的桥段。整体表现远远不如多年前的《全民目击》。甚至我短评有一点剧透，我都觉得无伤大雅。
只能这么多了，就是不太明白，方中信这么正义，前面只为了钱是在演戏给谁看？
算系了解咗我一個情意結，由選戰到律政強人，一直認為未完結一直自認為會有續，只是換一個平台或者故仔，可惜尼部電影系終結了，太可惜了 #2021#智叔 R.I.P 終於上映，算喇，系時代問題，respect 智叔&方中信
为了廖启智而看，电影里面有好多“熟人”。法律面前人人平等，印象最深是那个拿着秤的蒙面女神。“宁愿放走十个罪人，都不要冤枉一个无辜的人”，谢谢，我记住了。
律师良心发现，但是走犯法的路是不是值得推荐，这又是另一个故事。所有的证据都不是百分之一百正确的
精心设置了暗线的双重镜像，本以为会走向《大卫戈尔》的殉道路，却用难以服众的皆大欢喜草草收场。最后为了过审自说自话拔高说教，却忘了理想主义尾声的达成仍然依靠资本对抗。仿佛是故意减弱悬疑性，把重心放在现实性，然而又陷入主流和黑色都浅尝辄止的尴尬，只达成了十分浅薄的映射，挺可惜的。
故事很简单，逻辑比较完整，法言法语写的不错，可以直接写进小论文的那种。权二代杀了富二代，最后真正有能力把权二代绳之以法的，还得靠富一代出手，很写实。
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。
如果死者的父亲不是超级富豪，能与有权者平起平坐，故事的走向还会是正义战胜邪恶吗，鸡蛋与高墙的力量悬殊实在是天壤之别。因此结尾处那段说教真是太教条了。与其说法治，不如说法律是有钱权者的玩具，需要的时候怎么利用都可以。演员们尤其是老戏骨演技真是精湛。
有点老套，在各种题材各个角度都被电影拍过的情况下，如何能推陈出新呢？
10月。实际上，就真的挺无聊的，也挺离谱。
完全支撑不起他站出来作证的原因
我们之所以坚持公义，是为了让我们的后代，活在保有公义的世界上！
我们之所以坚持公义，是为了让我们的后代，活在保有公义的世界上！
随着香港法制基础的加速被毁，以后这种法律撒手、权位斗法的故事，会不断上演。
廖启智遗作，造型完全可以拿来演个跛豪之类的黑老大，对廖启智印象最深的是门徒里被砍掉手的警察
而且再感慨一句，香港的演艺圈断层真的很厉害，全靠老戏骨在撑。
在此哀悼廖启智先生。
是一个可以更加精彩的故事，但拍的略显平庸，普通话版本的对白没什么情感冲击，配乐和剪辑也没有使电影更加好看，最后的理想化独白也是强行升华主题，看完只觉得可惜。
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