The movie never brought this up, but most men would have been more than happy if Camille would have took a liking to them. A girl this good looking is never longing for a man. Not-to-mention - she was much better looking then both of them.
Good movie. Grade: B.
P.S.
Her eyes were so big they could suck all the energy out of a room. It's true!
Nope.
Stephane was a schizoid.
There are a few moments in the opening scenes where he seems jealous of Maxime's attentions towards Camille. I think that he and Maxime's non-sexual relationship is the closest Stefane will ever have to real intimacy.
It's also my interpretation that since violins (and cellos; I once knew a girl who referred to her cello as "my big fat lady") have the curves so many define as the perfect woman's body. Stefane treats his violins with the love and delicacy the same way that a normal person, like Maxime, would treat a woman. Stefane is unable to really have that intimacy with a woman, so he substitutes this human emptiness with his music.
"GOD--WAS--WRONG!"--James Mason, Bigger Than Life
Do you think Stefane even knows who he is as a human, outside of his identity of work?
I feel bad for the guy.
This makes it impossible for him to be intimate with anything.
And he seems in love with his job not because he loves the actual job but because it gives him power and the ablity to stay distant from people.
I think that the movie hinted that Stephane was a repressed homosexual, and this is part of why he is so emotionally distant.
I believe that he attempted to screw-up Maxime and Camille's relationship because he was in love with Maxime. He makes it clear that he does not want to have sex with Camille (because he is not attracted to women!), he just didn't like seeing Maxime with her.
Also, in the end he openly mentions that he "loved" Maxime, and in another scene he states that they were not "friends" (so what were they - certainly something more than business partners). An additional clue is that his usual social companion is another woman (I forget the character name), who tries to get him jealous when she invites another man to join them at the movies -- but Stephane is not jealous at all. He simply doesn't think about women that way. He pushes women away, and seems a little obsessed with his partner, Maxime.
Of course, by the end, he realizes that he loves Camille (in addition to Maxime), although I doubt he loves her in a sexual way. He hasn't quite come out of the closet yet, but his cold heart is starting to melt, and maybe he will be able to express his true desires someday...
Just a theory.
exactly my take on the movie too
shareIt would be an over-simplication to interpreter Stephane's sexual orientation.
shareWhy is it that every modern movie which has a single male past the age of say 25 or so, is assumed, perhaps, to be gay. This is only true in the U.S.--everywhere else a single man is a single man or what used to be called a bachelor. (however this is all perception, because in big cities like nyc the percentage of single men is well over half of the male population--same with women)
The only spark at all between these two professional men came from Maxim, who is both married and in love with another woman.
It occured to me than he could have been in love with Max's wife. With her out of the picture he has no one. He attached himself to Max to be close to her.
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