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Please help with ending..SPOILERS!


Hey guys...I have tried watching this twice and each time something interrupts me. I missed probably the last 10 minutes of the film...right when Lionel tells Charlotte that his father is having hallucinations of her dancing...after that I had to leave. How does the movie end? Thanks so much!

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It really pretty much ends on a down note. Dan never hooks up with Gaelle again. Her father (Thierry) runs home desperately to check on the latest tape he has received from Charlotte only to find there is nothing on the end of this particular tape. Charlotte and Lionel part ways as their business relationship is now dissolved due to Lionel's father being put in the hospital but before she leaves she gives Lionel a videotape telling him it may help him out since it has helped her out. Gosh, what a bummer ending!



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Wow...that is pretty depressing...but definitely appropriate for the movie. Thanks so much.

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The tape she gives Thierry is I think supposed to be her dancing for the old man, but she mistakenly gives him the wrong one and gives the son of the old man (the bartender) the tape of her dancing, instead of the Christian music show to lift his spirits... That's what I took from it at least.

Also, wasn't Gaelle Thierry's sister, not daughter?

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My feeling is that the tape she gave Lionel was with her dancing and he was the "Thierry" now. I think she meant to give Theirry the tape without her in it

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A cautionary dark comedy with a cautionary ending. Very likely everyone noticed that the characters never really communicated with each other about anything important. They kept their passions and emotional concerns to themselves. Stifling communication is an excellent way to abort a relationship. Charlotte is probably the most pathetic character, for she has nothing going for her except imagining men sexually turned on by her tapes. Well, at least she did do in one guy with her sad little sex show.
--Rayf

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But the old guy went out smiling . . . which his son said he hadn't done in years.

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