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.
2022.01.31 二刷粤语版，超多俗语超多梗，观感比普通话版好太多。以动画为叙事媒介，虽有些稍嫌夸张化违和的部分，却也反而得以刻画到了真人电影因拍摄或者审查限制所无法触及的现实边界。前半段没预期那么不堪，结尾高潮也没想像中那么燃，倒是中段因情感细节填充得足够翔实而相当动人。尽管模式套路化，依旧没忍住落泪了好几次。初看是个周星驰式小人物咸鱼翻身奋力向上的励志悲情喜剧，彩蛋却画风一转把主角拉回了不见尽头的劳碌现实。舞狮登顶的风光无限不过是对于先前旷日持久落魄挣扎的一次愤懑宣泄，再努力也难以看到出路才是这种生活的真正底色。二十多年前，大家或许还相信登上一个巅峰之后，一切都会开始变得更好，如今的励志文本之下则可能更多潜藏了对现实发出的诘问：“赢了又如何？” 而这个问题，又有谁能短时间内给出答案。
热血漫，挺燃的，导演很懂配乐，九连真人和椅子乐团的成名曲，还有毛不易的歌对剧情都有增色，该有的基础套路都有，该有的共情点恰到好处让感情持续上升，最后结尾的价值观取向很正，要相信朋友，做好自己的事，共同进步，再搭档才能跃升，舞狮是精神，是生活中的一部分，生活还是要踏踏实实地奋斗。
编剧大概看了一百部少年成长和弱鸡逆袭的片子外加10本《救猫咪》，于是照着套路分毫不差的写了一个，
动画方面一些人物运动略显诡异 剧情方面看了开头就知道结局 人物动机与剧情逻辑已然不管不顾了 主角的家庭背景沦为煽情符号
场景挺好，编剧不太行。举个小例子，在地铁送快递那一段，作为一个舞狮高手，他的快递是不应该掉的，应该像舞狮一样，稳稳接住，甚至跟成龙电影一样，救一个被高空抛下来的小孩都挺好，既让人物高光，也让女孩和他重遇自然很多。现在这种重遇简直是不可能发生的。
泪目两次，为爱情为友谊，心酸一次，床边照片，坠回现实。
当阿娟在天台上举着狮头独自起舞，当他迎着第一抹朝阳张开双臂，我看到的不只是一个孤单、瘦弱的身影，更是一个心有猛虎、自强不息的少年。
“那头雄狮冲上去了，但我没有…也幸好没有”
燃烧吧，被英雄花砸中的少年！永远别认！永远骄傲！永远倔强！
就最后的比赛有点看头。
推开楼顶的门，少年一人练习舞狮到天明——从这里开始，一直到电影结束，都很好，电影所要传达的，我感受到了。没有聚焦到成功与喝彩，而是落于那股力，最后回归生活。如果演员们的口音再本地化一点就更好了～
提两个瑕疵
这题材还得后配的粤语版，难道没有粤语版直接在岭南地区上映吗？最后各个队伍一起击鼓的时候，有点奥运会跳高比赛最后运动员一起加油看破纪录的感觉。
为纪念那没入人海无声无息、却又怒吼的人们，你、我、他。每个人都值得被歌颂。
国漫崛起，留一星给细节的不足吧，比如细节鞋子的问题，以及环境地域的关系，但总体已经非常好看了。
暂时只说说优点：
ps. 对于在80年代和90年代度过童年和少年的我们来说，这部电影里有太多的东西让我们露出时光倒流的微笑。
喜欢片头和影片中的狮子，真的看到了在广州老街上看到的那种狮头。原汁原味的本土动画，还有对南派功夫的致敬。乐夏加分，动画减分。个人感觉有点过誉了，粤语版会更好吧。
要爱具体的人，而非空洞的梦。
鍾意的「文化南方」色彩加持西域出身的李白遺產顯得弔詭。雖然鹹魚翻身、阿貓阿狗也有夢的主題的確勵志，聚焦留守少年這樣的弱勢群體身上值得足夠敬意，但是雞血打得未免滿格，無助無望的底層人不是只靠一次「高光」來突破自我夢想成真，學校教育、社區扶助、社會保障等人文關懷統統缺席，一時高潮於功利性的「成王敗寇」心態。【Wanda-BB】
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