Spaziani

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.

两个自童年已是好朋友的学生一起为功课制作一部短片，二人因剧情需要而接吻。这亲密的一刻引发了一连串事件的连锁反应，由最初一些让他们挥之不去的问题：如他们的爱好，他们的性取向，到后来甚至改变了他们之间友谊的性质和关系，甚至更广泛地改变了他们的社交圈。

害羞的小男孩亨利，從小在孤兒院長大。修女發現他很會修理電泡，於是告訴他『上帝賜予你的天賦，就是為眾生帶來光明』。十九年來，亨利都在孤兒院負責修繕的工作，直到有一天，孤兒院經營不善，亨利被迫離開孤兒院，他遵循上帝的各種『指引』，來到一家電器行，找到一份修理燈泡的工作。　　亨利被派到一間豪宅修理燈泡，卻發現豪宅的主人曾是鼎鼎有名的醃黃瓜大亨，現在卻因為失智而孤苦無依。亨利被派到戲院，負責修理招牌上的霓虹燈，情竇初開的亨利對售票小姐海倫一見鍾情，海倫有著一雙水汪汪的大眼睛，事實上卻是盲人，就算亨利為她修好了每一盞燈，海倫仍是伸手不見五指。　　亨利、海倫與黃瓜大亨之間究竟有什麼奇妙的關係呢？彷彿神燈精靈施展了魔法一般，這是一個Happy Ending 的故事，亨利能為全世界帶來光明，包括他最心愛的海倫…