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.
摄影、美术非常独特于以往写实的电影改编，把话剧做到了极致的电影化，明显的表现主义的风格。大全景下渺小的人物、倾斜的构图、心理暗示的置景、独特的转场、乌鸦群飞。无不让人想到奥逊威尔斯改编过的莎士比亚，看起来像是一个双重致敬。除此之外，这便是一部可以在文学、剧作课上放的教学片，抛弃了现有的电影工业元素，或许是对古典戏剧改编电影最好的处理方式了吧。
别再说了，请立刻拍一套莎士比亚全集吧谢谢。
其实是地
像是在看舞台剧一样。莎翁可以拍，但没什么必要。个人不太喜欢丹泽尔·华盛顿扮演的麦克白，感觉就是把《籓篱》的表演模式照搬了过来。
黑白片，但摄影技术很高超！卡斯强大啊！个人不太喜欢这种题材，3颗星。
这是属于麦克白的悲剧，也是属于我的悲剧。王冠掉落，魔法失效。黑白提升了观感，也突兀了缺点。
莎翁的作品现在看来确实跟不上时代了，同样的故事在现代人看来，台词太过晦涩，剧情太过拖沓了。丹泽尔华盛顿的表演无可挑剔。极简主义的场景有的镜头看起来很美，有的却又显得那么简陋。
《麦克白的悲剧》改编自莎士比亚的经典悲剧，讲述了一位弑君者/麦克白深受权欲、幻念与恐惧折磨的故事。
第3524-剧情上可能对这个故事太熟悉了，黑白影像并没有使气氛冷冽多少，皇宫那朴素简化空旷的环境给人一种干燥感，就这环境，抢这个王位真的好吗？
把戏剧搬入电影
绝佳的美术和氛围营造使本片充满了电影感，但故事和人物刻画都不足，演员表演上乘。
印象最深的是Macbeth去刺杀Duncan那场戏：拱顶的影子在地上排列整齐，仿佛正等人去搅乱，M便踏上它，一步步向前，光影在他脸上逐次闪过——看啊，悬垂的匕首就在前方！就像我手中的这把。握住
从打光到构图都铆足了劲儿传达出一种舞台剧气质，黑白色调不适合表现麦克白故事里的血腥，但却很好地渲染了那种阴森奇诡（奇行种女巫、水里浮出三个人头、还有漫天的乌鸦、烟雾和落叶场景都好美哦）可以说是中规中矩，百分百还原原著的一版麦克白了（乔尔科恩你居然一点额外的想法都没有吗？）弗姨的果决老辣和丹泽尔在权力面前的怔忡恍惚感都无可挑剔，不过最后要吐槽一下：是不是因为麦克白是丹泽尔华盛顿演的，所以杀死他的麦克德夫也必须找黑人演员来演呢？还有，可以改成黑人演员演白人公爵，但麦克白还是会对夫人说“愿你所生育的全是男孩子，因为你的无畏的精神，只应该铸造一些刚强的男性”。
不知道拍摄意义何在，女巫演技惊人，男主也还不错，女主没什么发挥且感觉过于现代。
科恩重演莎翁，在多版本的《麦克白》改编中，能否排得到前列恐怕还是打个问号。但是影片在风格化和形式感上确实做得十分出彩，精美的黑白影调干净、简洁、漂亮，渐进地模糊了戏剧与电影的界限，视觉享受直接拉满。
布景和转场非常棒抢眼 女巫的表演起鸡皮疙瘩。
科恩兄弟分道扬镳的首次创作?少了编剧的科恩套了莎翁的核。剧情就摆在那，多数人看的是能拍成啥样。不得不说，电影营造的美学是科恩兄弟一贯的风格。延续了莎翁中繁复的对白而不显生硬，对特定场景进行了美学构建，灯光，氛围，视觉冲击是最大的亮点。采用黑白小荧幕是对经典的致敬，毕竟现代五彩的装束无法带来美学的提升，反而减分。但是呢，剧情羸弱是软肋。且和戏剧的ETA（镜头下的戏剧）差不多。对比最近看的俄狄浦斯王，皆是可戏剧的悲剧。过去时代的人，宿命仿佛有特别的吸引力，无法抵抗，越是抵抗越是无法逃脱。这就是宿命。是国学里的天道。无法描绘而又时刻面对。在延伸一个话题，复仇似乎是人类大部分人的使命，是每个人怜悯之心的希冀。只有看到血债血偿，观者才得以解脱。我们平庸的生活时刻被带入角色里寻求心的精神安慰。
纯粹在我审美范围内的作品，绝美cinematography
在欧洲的传统叙事中总喜欢插入一则带有宿命论的神谕。
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