Ah, who am I kidding, of course she slept with Charles, and of course she was going back to him. I was with Antoine all the way on this one, and can just imagine the pain he went through hearing the news (as a guy, I've been crushed over less). Goddamn tramp!
In any event, this has now entered my top five films (probably top two) of all time. With the exception of Fincher's The Game--a totally different genre--no film had managed to pull me into its world like this one did. That's due in no small part to the fact that I went through a similar gut-wrenching love triangle scenario myself a few years back. By the end of this film, I was rabid, hoping against hope that Lucille would choose to stay with Antoine. I was crushed when that didn't happen.
I normally don't like romantic films, even though I'm a romantic myself. That's because we can't make a goddamn decent one here in the States. But I've gotta hand it to the French and Italians, they GET it. Thank God for foreign movies.
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