昆汗比比(Cunhambebe)是印第安塔穆约(Tamoyo)部落武装反抗葡萄牙人的同盟领袖，这个部落现今分布于里约热内卢至圣保罗之间。根据死里逃生的Cunhambebe俘虏海员施塔登(Hans Staden)的回忆录描述，图皮南巴(Tupinambá)族人是食人族，凶残而且好斗。　　1555年法国入侵里约热内卢，塔穆约部落与葡萄牙人联合抗击法国。　　由于战争的持续，传教士José de Anchieta 和Manuel da Nóbrega发现了巴西东南面的一个小村皮拉蒂宁卡村（aldeia de Piratininga），此后此处逐渐发展成为了今天的圣保罗。因为Anchieta能够流利的使用图皮语，两人之后进入了Cunhambebe的部族中，并与其达成了一系列协议。1567年，在乌巴图巴(Ubatuba)，他们与Cunhambebe签订了Iperoig条约，条约的签署使得巴西落入葡萄牙人的手中，而且在当地只允许使用葡萄牙语和信奉天主教。在16世纪以前，当地的图皮人一直都是奴隶。　　这部电影讲述的便是1594年葡萄牙骑士Estácio de Sá(1520-1567) 试图驱逐法国殖民者，在此之际，由于塔穆约部落的仇敌图皮金人(Tupiniquins)站在葡萄牙人一方，他们感到背叛，于是开始支持法国人。　　一位法国人Arduíno Colassanti被图皮南巴俘获。虽然他已自称是法国人，但审判仍判定他是来自葡萄牙，惩罚他为奴隶。Seboipepe的丈夫死于葡萄牙人之手，于是他们结婚，希望得到神灵的复仇。　　随后，在一场战役中他用葡萄牙人留下的大炮击败了图皮金人，为了庆祝这一胜利，图皮南巴人决定把他吃掉……

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.

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.