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.
不喜欢这样的科恩，以前的作者性荡然无存，摄影上的极度写意也无法掩盖导演创作能力枯竭的事实。反而是两位演员最出彩，只可惜他们奥斯卡级别的表演被这样一个平庸的剧本给生生的浪费了。 注：赶快让两个科恩合体吧，这部实在是没劲。
导演以原创剧本出名，看之前还以为只是借用《麦克白》名字，剧情跟原版没啥关系呢，没想到基本是照搬。大家都知道麦克多蒙德和华盛顿是当今最优秀的演员之二，有必要几年内再改编莎翁的剧来提供炫演技的舞台吗？（俩位到西区舞台现场表演的话倒是有兴趣目睹下）剩下主要是极简，表现主义舞台设计和音乐有些出彩，百分钟左右的片长还算比较妥当。
当然不会不好，但是i want something different, something more. 麦克白值得翻拍，但是真的不好翻拍...尤其是中间的故事呈现方式实在是有点平。不过还是值得一看的！尤其是开头巫女与结尾决斗的处理，非常喜欢，加一星。BTW 看完了以后疯狂截图，光影太好看了！！的确是一种近似伯格曼的体验。
风格很好，很像伯格曼的第七封印。但没有新的东西。style over substance
科恩兄弟单飞了？不光单飞，科恩大哥的构图怎么有点学韦斯安德森了？不管怎么，绝对没有黑泽明大师的版本那么惊艳和张力十足，这个版本有点偏于简陋和仓促。
这就是学院派吗？影像逼格满满的，摄影，场景极具风格化和美学效果，极简主义的几何建筑构型，黑白画面配合烟雾缭绕的气氛。台词很古风和剧场化，是莎翁原台词还是新写的？这部可能是典型的形式大于内容？因为我看完后最大感受不是故事带来的享受与震撼，而是对美术摄影等所具匠气的佩服，而改编自同一剧本的黑泽明的《蜘蛛巢城》在电影化和叙事上显然做得更好，更多的体现了贪婪欲望罪恶等在麦克白命运中造就的悲剧。
属于我看多少遍都看不懂的那种类型的电影~但是4:3x黑白 还是挺好的
极简的城堡风，极致唯美的摄影，莎士比亚的经典台词。这无疑是电影史上迄今为止最好的麦克白。
极简主义，风格化摄影，只是莎翁在被翻拍过无数遍后很难再有突破、丹泽尔·华盛顿和科恩嫂的表演也缺乏惊喜。
当万千黑鸦从路边飞过，就象征新一轮的杀伐又将开始。由欲望勾出的自我，往往会在邪恶之中印证自己的本我。极简主义的舞台剧式风格，黑白影调配合小画幅的设置，导演几乎将所有的视点都聚焦在人物的表演之中。对于莎士比亚的麦克白解读有很多，对于这种影像改编往往要加入作者性才会不落俗套，他将麦克白的欲望归结于自我的反叛和自省，利用这种具有规律的人性思考来体现无常的道德困境，只是表演和摄影太过亮眼，让人总觉得顾此失彼…（真的觉得表演性奖项全给这部作品也不为过）
颁奖季 nothing to comment
My voice is in my sword.受不太了这个美学
有几个场景我特别喜欢，但是没有英文字幕的情况下看太吃力了。
极简的影像后面是乏味化，摄影很好，莎翁的对白听一次有一次新的感受。
(我怎么觉得莎士比亚写的这部剧也不过尔尔)
摄影和艺术方面的精致让我这个对莎翁不是很了解的人也被吸引了，其实故事很简单，就是一个篡权后被策反的简单故事，但是因为演员的演技和整体的舞台剧感，让整个故事多了很多艺术性。黑白画质其实比起五颜六色更能烘托出人内心的恐惧和挣扎。
简洁主义的布景、极为考究的台词、充满张力的表演、自成一体的美学，使得影片具有浓厚的舞台剧色彩。这也不同于科恩兄弟以往的作品，或许是由于乔尔·科恩单独执导本片，我更愿将这部电影视为其“单飞”后的实验作品。
非常享受的电影，舞台仪式感好强，音效特棒，黑白摄影牛逼。演员演的过瘾，我们看的也非常爽，太短了，意犹未尽。希望科恩兄弟联手再把莎士比亚电影继续拍下去。
宛如德莱叶回来拍了部《麦克白》，“先把那房间填满，然后一点一点的去掉”。没想到比15年那版还要极简风。
7.9 每次dw的电影都会觉得他很厉害，但又喜欢不起来，production design 真的很棒。
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