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.
慕尼黑协议被洗白为为了准备和德国战争准备拖时间的策略了？
感觉虚构的部分还是有些架不住这个厚重的历史时刻以及两位国家元首，会形成历史部分与虚构部分互相跳戏不太兼容的感觉。
决定人类历史走向的风云时刻，两位高材生想要逆天改命，但最终无法阻挡历史的车轮滚滚向前。深洗张伯伦的影片，我基本上快信了他的曲线救国哈哈，这和我学的历史书不太一样呦~
喜欢看小人物在大历史背景下的挣扎，浪潮推着大家一步步往前走，明知眼前是无路也会挣扎着走下去。喜欢夜晚两个人交错吸那同一支的香烟，万般愁苦。
昨天刚看完原著，趁着新鲜的记忆又看了电影。
因为知道史实，这种心理预期加成了悬疑气氛（主要是为主人公们担心）。关于张伯伦，我知道常见的说法太武断太嘴炮（“绥靖就是软弱”），但是这个为了英国战胜而争取时间的结论，恐怕得考证一下（How much did they really know at the time?）两个主角演得不坏，简直是那个年代英德贵族某种“典型”的性格。在无耻混蛋里的盖世太保角色太深入人心，August Diehl 每次出现我都心惊肉跳……（这回的确是个类似的角色）
一个德国人想阻止政治收复丢失的故土的故事，理由是祖国会更强大，因此会导致日后的战争。理由逻辑如此搞笑，骗看片人无思考能力吗？
且不说对张伯伦的描绘，看时恰俄乌战争刚起，而每一个年轻人的命运因战争而失去了控制
洗白张伯伦？赢得了蛋的备战时间，法国为什么投降？敦克尔克大撤退。为最后的结尾扣三星
7/10，拍的很精致。但局限于历史真实，虚构的人物比较概念化。
三星半吧，作为一个历史既定但人物虚构的影片，其实结局都已知道，只是为了两个男主的努力与白费功夫感到伤心罢了，张伯伦走下飞机发表讲话时，Hugh看着风雨欲来而决定了自己的未来，Paul回到了柏林，也准备为革命献出自己的生命，Hugh和Paul的感情太让人唏嘘了，本来也只是为了男主们看的，那个年代牛剑的年轻学子们啊。
抛开文艺气氛，整个二战的走势真的有第二种可能吗。张伯伦真的只能收到一个间谍发来的消息吗，就像股市只有一个黑嘴吗，所以你在股市的买和卖，或者旁观真的是听从了黑嘴或者内心的呼唤吗。其实所有的选择没有好坏，只有结果，而同一个时空只会有一个结果，但结果却是一个主观判断，即使付出生命，也可以被不同的人给与不同的评价，甚至反反复复，犹如烧烤。
电影是拍得不错，但结论观点却很可笑。欧美的学者和政客一直在篡改历史，诺曼底取代斯大林格勒成了二战转折点，中国的抗战变成无足轻重，甚至不值一提，这两年更是甚嚣尘上，斯大林比希特勒还邪恶，这部电影把张伯伦的绥靖政策变成了远见卓识，荒唐的见识正是堕落的欧美现实社会的反映。
另一角度的历史观，当然还是必不可免的政治正确
中规中矩的历史片，如果不是剧情过于戏剧化让人出戏，几乎可以算得上很有质感了。对绥靖政策的放在当时历史背景下的解读不错，但是张伯伦试图赢得战备时间就纯粹是小说原著的无力解释了，毕竟德国才是充分利用时间完成战备的那一方。
英国外交官不回家的原因找到了 心系德牧 （荞麦和三姐别搭了演完母子演夫妻这俩人真没啥cp感） 无论如何做出过努力而不是在等死，总会有希望，而不抱希望会更好。车内道别一场，美人流泪心痛！
绥靖政策不会带来永久和平，更不是通过秘密外交牺牲他国利益换取自身和平。国之大事在祀和戎，二战爆发意味着理想主义永久和平论的破灭，更意味着现实主义可能是解决战争与和平问题的一种路径。没有任何一个国家希望战争来临，但一定不能为了换取和平助纣为虐。
电影氛围感挺强，演员演技中规中矩不是很推荐的影视作品，高潮部分不够精彩，过程不够流畅，对我而言断断续续的。
第一次在Netflix看片...想起剑桥五杰...想去oxford念书
3.5，主角个人的部分还是很喜欢的，尤爱对青春时光的回溯。但对历史事件的叙述着力太轻，使得本该有的紧迫氛围趋于虚浮。
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