looking for completion - spoiler alert

My husband and I thought this was an excellent film on several levels: an interesting view of middle class life in modern Provence, a delicately told love story, and a tale of an archetyal relationship, in that Mlle. C. could be seen to symbolize visual, musical, and literary art; education; civilization; "the finer things" humanity has achieved.
Jean symbolizes physicality, connection to the earth and nature; material competence.
Both are incomplete and need each other in order to be a fully developed human. When we first meet him, we see how befuddled he is by the refinements of language. Then when he's in her apt., it's like he's discovering another world, he's so intrigued by her books, pictures, and the possibility of experiencing fine music through her.
She admires and respects his simplicity and his ability as a builder and tool user. He is able to solve her problem of the material world that keeps intruding on her (the unwanted wind and noise throught the defective window).
They are drawn to being completed in one another. He helps her shut out the parts of the world she doesn't want (with the repaired window); she helps him by using music to touch parts of his soul he longs to contact.
Once this balance is established,they together can share his favorite view of nature, a view he doesn't seem to be able to show his wife, but which Mlle. C. finds beautiful.
The tragedy is, having made this archetypal connection, they are unable to consummate it in a lasting, full-blown relationship, because he is tied to his family. The last scene indicates his return to them now feels like imprisonment to him.