Was that, although she and Ivan where clearly quite prepared to move around (apparently in both France and Spain), for work, Suzanne made no attempt to find work in her primary field.
Two physiotherapists disappeared from the town where she was working and yet there was no work for her and it never occurred to her to try elsewhere.
Not of any real importance in the context of the film as a whole but it did niggle as we watched them struggle in poverty.
I do think it is unrealistic that a woman of her age and socioeconomic status, and with two children and a career to boot, would toss it all off to be with an irregularly employed spanish handyman with a divorce and criminal conviction in his past. He wasn't even all that romantic or handsome. Kind of a past-his-prime, chubby schmoe. She must have been really desperate to get out of the situation she was in and waited for the first opportunity to do so. Had it not been the spaniard, it would likely have been someone else. A domestic time bomb waiting to explode I would say.
I think the French are more accepting of films of this nature - i.e. total self-sacrifice in the name of love. I think Americans take a more materialistic view to such things and would find it hard to understand how someone could give up a life of luxury for a life of squalor, no matter how good the guy may be in the sheets!
Yeah, not too stereotypical or anything. And we must all remember, imperfect looking people never find love do they.
shareI don't think the point was that she couldn't find work anywhere at any point. I think the problem was that her money problems were immediate, she didn't even have enough gas to go anywhere else.
My problem with the story was that she was so completely unprepared. Totally trusting of her husband, totally not thinking of the next step. But there are people who are that naive.
Ultimately the thing I found most unbelievable is that she is so passive. She's married to a politician, and she can't think far enough to say, "you f.. with me and I'll go public with everything you've done to me, you stupid bozo."
I mean really? The only solution she could think of is shoot him?