a few questions

I'll do my best

1, I don't really get what you mean. the poster at the end? why was it "already seven years old"?

2, does it matter? she didn't commit suicide, that's the point. but well...maybe she DID marry him, and they have 3 children. (it's mentioned at the end of the film)

3, I guess she is. she knows that Antonio is a good man...sort of.

4, he was probably transferred to prison immediately after the Cannes-incident. it was his last shirt he wore, and prisons tend to keep stuff you have and wear when you begin your time.

that's all.

Here's my take on these questions:
1) I do not know and wish I did.
2) Yes she did--after the "dream" the dialogue (phone voice, talking to Banderas) says, "the ambassador and his wife and three children . . . ." implying that Lilly did go off and marry Bruce.
3) Well, off into the sunset living happily ever after . . .? That depends on one's own take on things.
4) One explanation is that when a prisoner is released, his original belongings are returned to him--of course that is usually for a short jail stay. In the US some prisoners who are released from a prison term are given their earnings (some small amount) and a new suit of clothes. Who knows what it is supposed to be like in France.

I sure wish I could figure out the answer to # 1???

Having read all the posts here, I have found two that seem to answer the first question--what the last poster was. Also, these posts make it clear to me that I have to watch the film more than once again. Here they are--clipped from the posts themselves.

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Did anyone notice that most, if not all, of the clocks during the extended daydream sequence had pretty much the same time? I 1st noticed it when the guy in the blood-stained tuxedo gets released from prison & gets picked up in the Mercedes(?) by his accomplice. There is a rather colorful alarm clock on the rear deck behind the back seat. It seemed just a bit out of place in that luxury motorcar. It had the very same time as the clock 7 years earlier in Lilly's bathroom when Laure starts to fall asleep in the tub. I must have seen at least 8 clocks during the fantasy sequence that had pretty much the same time... I'm sure this was a BDP clue that passage of time had been suspended.

There was a number of other incongruities (such as the 7-yr old blood-stained tuxedo) and other devices employed by BDP. One of these devices was his use of posters. Did you notice the Deja Vue 2008 posters? According to a Babel Fish translation, Deja Vue = already seen (& Deja Vu = already considered). How about the poster change from the daydream sequence to the actual sequence.

Why was poster of the model/actress in the diamond-studded serpent bra ensemble put up 7 years after the Cannes Festival event? I don't know very much French, but there was something about 7 ans (7 years) at the top of the poster.

And how about the use of the crystal to change history once again. The crystal that Lilly gave to the driver ened up blinding him 7 yrs later & gave us a very different ending. There was a reference to a crystal ball & seeing/changing the future early in the movie.
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About the posters....

Firstly, the poster of the Cannes roberey is for a tabloid article about the 7-year-old unsolved mysterey of the heist. Yes, a coiencidence that they are hanging it then, but what I love about this film are the little things like that where DePalma requires you to suspend your disbileif like that. It makes for a very dream-like film.

Also, you may notice that the old posters they are taking down are of Stamos submerged in water in front of a european city-scape.

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