I blinked...They were sitting in Faber's new office...then I read the credits and looked back and they had vanished. Did they get up and leave the room or did they just dissolve out of the shot. If you can answer this for me, I can better understand the ending. Thanks.
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They just faded away into the credits, but it was made clear that they were going to have sex because she was lying down, he was sitting on the bed with her, and she was flirted with him.
Hmmmm. It didn't seem to me as though they were going to do the big thing at all. In the end, William is sitting on the edge of the couch and it looks as though he is now taking the role of his former "patient", as he opens up to HER, the implication being that they both need each other in this way, and that they are as close, or closer, than any sexually involved couple without having actual physical contact. Sandrine makes a radical change in her life without informing William of her wherabouts, and IMO, she was not attracted to him at all in that way. Non?
I loved the scene where William dances around his house to "Ain't Too Proud To Beg". So cute.
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I loved the scene where William dances around his house to "Ain't Too Proud To Beg".Very funny scene, especially as it is so out of character. He, Fabrice Luchini, is a very fine actor. Try to catch him in Leconte's "Ridicule". share
I agree, If i can go a step further, they both lit up cigarettes indicating there session was as sex was for some people where they light up a cigarette after great sex. The scene is what you make of it. If a viewer felt sex was next then they had sex even though I did not see that.
It would have been shown or better indicated. But them having a cigarette is shown and the implication to me was something good must have happened and since up till that point it had been conversation, then the joy must have been reached by this action and not a sexual encounter.
It could have been like a climax that there role was reversing and she would now become the listener as you say, meaning he was starting to become her in releasing is issues on her with her now giving him advice. I don't see how they become one because most [not all of the focus was on her issues not his.
I feel some cheated themselves out of a great ending by thinking sex was next even though it's a goo d thought it does not seem to be what the writer was trying to say but left it open for whom wanted it to be that way.
One last point, it is somewhat rare for a film to end with a sexual reference instead of something more meaningful even if they are going to do it, and in this film it does not seem to fit.
With the camera vertically above the pair at the end, we can follow exactly what is happening between them.
She is doing her seductress bit lying on the couch, which we have seen before. But he goes and sits beside her, which he has never done. Nor has he ever got that close when she is horizontal. But the crucial clue, it seems to me, is that he is talking animatedly to her with arms moving fast in her direction. At last he is no longer the passive listener, giving her nothing, but is actively communicating.
And his mouth and hands may well be put to other purposes shortly.
I agree with the last opinion.
He is sitting byside she, and them they disappear.
I think they went to make love.
But, this is not important.
Remember the psicologhis sentence :"Everybody are loking for THE CONTACT"; and they recovered their contat. This is the important thing.
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They fade away because they can now leave the office and walk into real life
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Where they go and what they do after are totally irrelevant. Why should there always be a resolution? You guys see too many Hollywood movies :~)
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I noticed he moved over next to her and brought her an ashtray. But then he lit up a cigarette as well. You can see the smoke from it. I don't remember him smoking during the movie. Maybe her habit rubbed off on him. He still had her lighter which looks like a Zippo.
They fade away because they can now leave the office and walk into real lifeNicely put. I am inclined to agree with that. share
I thought the end was telling me they will now continue their meetings and the relationship will develop from there, and to where it develops, it makes no difference.
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The ending's open to interpretation. For example, the scene is shot from above and held for a long time to give you time to ponder why that is, and in the end we're left with an empty room (which looks like a doll's house from that angle and distance, which may allude to his fascination with toys, and suggests the point may be that he never really actually found her at all, just imagined what it would be like if he did, and in the end was left with nothing (an empty room).
shareNot really. They leave the couch and go back to the table. Then she talks for 3 mins and then they stare at each other for thirty minutes,Then she leaves,then the man stares at random things,until she returns the next day. She then talks for another three minutes and stare at each other for 30 mins. She leaves,He stares at random objects,She returns. In between they remember there is a world outside that suffocating room,so they show a bit of a street or corridor or The secretary Miss Moneypenny. Oh yes his ex woman too exists who also talks,while our constipated benign looking rabbi looks on.Eventually they both think of doing something different,like colour the wall and sit down to watch the paint dry. It's a shame This movie missed out on all the oscars.
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