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question regarding the end of the film


at the last minute of the film we see jullie laying on the soffa thinking,and than she hears something and goes outside and fades into darkness.now,i think that she must have had an affair with her husbands buisness manager.am i right or did i miss something?? please share your thoughts and simplify the plot a bit if you can tanx!

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I think she's going outside on the sea shore to kill herself...
Remember that she have this long walks before in the movie.

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If I am not wrong, although it's never explicitly mentioned, it's implied that business manager was homosexual or at least a misogynist. Actually when Julie (Romy) confronts him, he replies "I am not interested in women", or something along those lines. I saw this movie some time ago (in french), therefore I cannot remember the exact words.

Anyway the answer would be, NO. She had not an affair with that man.

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Interesting. For a lot of the film I thought the business manager (Wasn't that George??) desired Julie - I seem to remember him 'looking at her, and passing slightly inappropriate remarks about her being attractive. But.. later, as commented above, he makes the enigmatic remark about not liking women. He certainly makes misogynistic remarks. Now, OK, someone can certainly be a mysogynist - ie have well dodgy views about women, and still lust after them, but I didn't see anything that said they actualy had an affair. Neither do I think his contempt for women necessarily showed him as gay.
I saw the voices as just in Julie's imagination.. I thought they were her husband's, and her mind was playing tricks. Guilt? Regret? That was her fate, her punishment.. She may have gained all her wealth (and presumably stopped the house sale somehow), but had lost her husband and found her toyboy was a scumbag, and had to live with that alone. I saw her having to live in that sterile house, hearing voices as her own private 'hell'.
That is just what I saw.. I fully accept that there was a lot of ambiguity in this film..

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I think the manager was angry with her because she did not give in. He had also passed his hands very slowly over her shoulders, do you remember? He felt rejected.

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