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in a small Qu-ebec tow+n in the
 late-1920′s[, this emot*iona= l )\drama follows the life and@ e] ;x+!_ploi?ts ^.+=;of$[$ Cel. -este Beaumont, a@ ,\talen_ted young pianist who gains local ce#[leb,,rity at t_]he *
to,#!wn,. [ movie(*\? theater fo r he\+
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as a ]]``*silent film pianist@,$[.   Awkward * Pierre Bla\)udell is her biggest fan %and eve[n)`,t$ually m$(?.arr_ies, her.  [ Sho!.+^rtly af
-,t$#]er this she bears+ his son, ^!Pierre, who joi(;ns t-,h%@e ar[,my) \.   S+)/h/;e#_? i^.nsis,_+$ts o *_n](## j#%,#,oining him at]
 the base!` an- d: his meddlesome, sno#oty parent//s_ = ! [insist(: 
s(he giv#=e them her son:.   Pierre is!, ki ]ll)%.-ed in( the @@wa
_?r, an#d Cel\este fle.\es to N@ew York
# wh?^e!re sh_e find)s stead): y emp $loyment ;=)as a j%@azz %pianist.   She  finds a life[(=-long compan_ i#+on with a[!( bla\!!c
*%k musician and chronicl*-.es h(er e[xp[-$erie;#nces in \,!a di,/ary /t [,h(
at she pas=ses on to her %son a:!@f^ter /he g*rows@ up[.?@   Her son becom[,es+.:* a painter and once his ow\n so]$n, An%to^!`in-@;%e, i
s g$$row,,[?n,)= re]ads him!, t#)-`he story of]; Celeste, t.;he youth’s grandmo#ther^ .   In=+trigue #d, ) An[ :toi%$ne heads to the Big A]pple in hopes of fi#%nding[, her.]　　This movie is an emoti $[ona^l )d#]rama %*ab:\o=+ut how Ant!oine, play, ed beauti!%@fully@^
 by Fran(çois )\:Méthé, discovers the*- )de,?tails of his heritage.   T#his film w =on ma
[n;y @,!aw^ards i+n Cana% da??[! and_^ at Cannes in 1988.   F/*r ançois Méth*é, who wa$ s about 11@-years-old, ne?v-:er acted,= %-again after this movi =:#e.　　Fr:om IM)Db　　A#`. qui,)et` painter, ,sepa*:!rate@:%d fr(om his w%ife =(for a year, re+?ceiv 
=es a )sui@^tcase in the \: mail from hi\!^s mother,) whom he hasn’+t seen si?nce infanc!!\y.   H(e believes ^she +abando@,ned him to his wealthy, p]aternal g([ran#
dparents.   (#\The s.!uitcase co],ntain,. s me@@m^entos and a diary#+\,\ a lo(^:ng:] le%-,tter to h!
im, written ove:r t he years ^, [with @/d/:\et=ails of [ \her youth, her fi:=)r:
st job as a pianist at a cine)^\m._a, the c\!+#oming of talkies, her marriage%, and how h+$e cam!e to live +[ w ](ith his grand+; :p-#arents.   As he reads\(, through the ma;terials and her\ story comes^ to lif e, his son Anto?ine, who’s about 1-0 o^ r 1%[2,] tr\==ies` to\( break throu?gh his/ fath:\er’s[: silence and s%)%`o, rrow b.*y taking matters in!*to/;$ hi#%,s -own hands.