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.
好看。覺得劇本和表演都非常扎實得讓人珍貴，也很難得。作為幾乎同齡人，看到反叛心理的姐姐真的很有帶入感。03年的氣息撲面而來。最喜歡的細節是爸爸在樓梯間哭時手上拿著的那個鑰匙扣
林嘉欣还是那么美，虽然芳仪设定性格不太好，但我还蛮喜欢她慢吞吞的样子
林嘉欣演的很好！自私的女儿也可信！母女间的矛盾也感同身受，但总好像缺点什么，故事有点架空，再多知其所以然……就更好啦！
当妈妈真的好辛苦，除了开头，后面妈妈的劳累程度几乎让人忘记了她自己是个癌症患者……😭
成功纳入了「恐婚恐育」电影图谱，同时本身也是蛮好的剧情片，很扎实、很细腻，如今还在认认真真雕琢着电影、能拍出普通华人生活状态影像的，基本就只剩下台湾影人了吧（这是可以说的吗？）。其实也并不只是贫贱夫妻百事哀，贫贱其次，生儿育女难度最大的是，要提供给孩子长达十余年、十分稳定的生活环境。不能轻易地改变现状，殊不知维持现状才最难。家庭冲突的部分非常揪心，没有听到美国女孩的演讲，有种无疾而终的遗憾。
年纪大了真是看不得这种片子 因为知道短暂的温情前后全是无尽的琐碎与折磨 sigh
「在这个世界上，我最不想要成为的人是我的母亲，因为她的恐惧，会成为我的恐惧，而她的软弱，会使我软弱。」
和很多台湾电影一样，好像一直在平铺直叙地讲生活琐事，但又因为细致真实，让人无法不沉浸其中
《美国女孩》
什么玩意儿… 母女之间除了吵架没有任何交集 请问最后怎么和解😅
美国移民在再回台湾的纠葛，女孩与父母最后的和解
3.5/5 剧本中规中矩 但几场父母和孩子的相处/冲突很真实触动
女儿看着就跟韩片《爱.回家》里的小孩一样叫人厌烦。说明一个道理，在家庭关系里，幼子代表的既是索取的角色，而厌恶被索取是人类的共性，这点不会比动物更理性。或者承担家庭时就已经签下了这份承诺，一方将会只知道索取，另一方始终无怨无悔。我们把这份承诺称之为“爱”。
同样是侧重于母女关系和家庭关系，这部的真实自然程度远超瀑布，几个压抑和爆发的点都很有代入感，美中不足是结尾戛然而止，我以为会落在母亲听女儿的演讲那里可惜后面就没交代了
没有情绪的起伏而只是一味的在压抑中愤然归结于对方的自私而达不到自己的要求，就做不到让观众产生同理。文化冲突和疫情都只是这个电影在当下想要挂上噱头的手段。真正的矛盾与冲突只会在日常琐碎里越积越深，而电影里除了妹妹之外的三人充满刻意性与表演性的吵架，都只会更加重不真实感。相比之下，瀑布在各方面都高出一筹。
倒也不是电影不好，演的挺好的，小女儿比较可爱，但是好累啊，每天生活本来就是这样了，看电影还要看这样的电影。。
adolescent girl “妈妈可以答应我不要死吗”
同样语境之下的家庭反思，有细节有生活有矛盾，一泉活水。
在家里的镜头大多暗调，次要人物被虚焦，制造出主要人物的自我孤立。美国女孩的表现非常抢眼，张力十足。
第3452-影片可看，演员表现都不错。
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