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.
有时候我就想啊，世界是一个多维度的立体空间，每一部电影都能开启我们对这个立体的更新维度的探索。不是所有的动画电影主角都是小孩子，起码在《向着明亮那方》中，好几个篇章的主人公就是中老年人，这样的动画向孩子们展现的是一整个世界，而非夸张低幼的无脑作品，一味只顾着嘻嘻哈哈哈。
喜欢小火车那个故事，很感人。糖水铺和哼哈二将的故事也很有意思。
七个故事风格不同，各具特色，充满奇思妙想又温暖阳光。
《哼将军和哈将军》:好玩，有点意犹未尽。
《糖水铺》《翼娃子》《外婆的铁皮柜》都很喜欢！这种温馨的淡淡的童年的色调！《萤火虫》稍微有点可怕 细思极恐 《小火车》看了个开头就快进了 画风不喜欢也是觉得有点恐惧
还好吧，感觉很平淡，可能这就是导演想表达的东西吧
绘本，剪纸，多种风格
二将讲的是一个神话故事，但结局是双胞胎打闹的日常故事。很有创意，一直被故事吸引，最后恍然大悟。
几个章节水平参差不齐，前面半部分简直灾难，粗制滥造的半成品，没有那制作水准就不要立意搞得复杂，小孩子也看不懂吧，后半部分简单生活化反而很不错
朋友们，都去电影院支持一下吧，再没有比这更正的国风了，不感动你来骂我。
9.21北京英皇电影城首映见面会。7个原创绘本改编短片组成的合集，7个导演分别的团队，好几个导演都是90后，比较喜欢后4段。作为电影来说7段有点多了，虽然主题相近但还是显得散乱，选4-5段拉长一点效果会更好。7段大概是:1.兔子的问题，2.萤火虫，3.小火车，4.糖水铺，5.哼将军和哈将军，6.外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅，7.翼娃子的星期天
手绘有温度。但确实后面几位有了人生阅历的导演才能讲出更有深意的故事。
能打动人的，永远是真诚。
国内的绘本电影是真的少，这部质量倒也还行，至少不再讲神话故事了，温暖又感动的小事也值得创作者们关注啊~
我只指童心之源，童心是成人的源泉。最后一篇的视角好动人。
小兔画风很不错，故事很暖，偏低龄化。喜欢最后两个故事
刚沉浸于这一个，开始播下一个了。追评：昨天心情不好，今天心情正常，重看一次，被感动了。以后真的是要在什么状态下看什么类型的作品
第11届BJIFF第七张票献给中国第一部绘本动画电影.第二排正中的观影体验+映后主创5位导演和总监制到场（差2位导）七个填满生活细节的故事 从童话风过度到写实 “明亮”的温泉流淌在视听感官和内心深处 多次泪目 在动画领域里绘本的力量确是一种独特的尝试 兔子在疑问中的想象力、萤火虫的光与熊婶带上面具的温柔、小火车里受灾的共鸣（我是四川长大的孩子 导演还抓住了山城和腊肉的细节）老伯夜里的各色糖水甜品、外婆的柜子里装着她的整个世界（中途有个情节是外婆只剩两三颗牙和“我”掉的牙！极有生活质感）、哼哈将军最后的反转、翼娃子写实又干净的世界 【最喜欢的是小火车、外婆的蓝色铁皮柜】
整体画风很治愈，适合家长带小朋友来看的电影，《哼将军和哈将军》还不错！几个小故事的设定都照顾到了各地的方俗人情！
七个短篇小故事合成的电影故事性上都挺不错，看了其他人的短评说是国内首部原创绘本动画片，这种画风我看着很舒服很温馨。 最喜欢的是外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅这个故事，淡淡的忧伤的回忆，实在是让我动容。 其他故事也都很不错，好几个故事也都有各自的隐喻。
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