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. 嗄wkward 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. SSet 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. 嗄wkward 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, 嗄ntoine, is grown, reads him the story of Celeste, the youth’s grandmother. Intrigued, 嗄ntoine heads to the Big 嗄pple in hopes of finding her. This movie is an emotional drama about how 嗄ntoine, 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 嗄 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. 嗄s he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son 嗄ntoine, who’s about ①0 or ①②, tries to break through his father’s silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.
