This was an odd film. Generally I don't look at other reviews, but I did in this case.
For me the whole film just didn't gel. As another reviewer mentioned,has the director had any real contact and meaningful experience with middle-class and working class people?
Here is a mother with two teenage sons - and she is completely submissive, a doormat. She is not assertive at all. She has the personality of someone who has been closeted from humanity her entire life, not someone in a household raising two teenagers, a family business, with a beautiful cottage by the lake.
In the end she comes off as a selfish conceited person - abandoning all - her family, her husband, and her lover.
Incidentally concerning the ending, she would need a passport to travel to Montreal,Canada, something I doubt she would have, given her insularity. Her lover, being a worldly fellow, would likely have asked her beforehand about a passport for the upcoming tournament in Belgium.
For me the whole film just didn't gel. As another reviewer mentioned,has the director had any real contact and meaningful experience with middle-class and working class people?
Here is a mother with two teenage sons - and she is completely submissive, a doormat. She is not assertive at all. She has the personality of someone who has been closeted from humanity her entire life, not someone in a household raising two teenagers, a family business, with a beautiful cottage by the lake.
In the end she comes off as a selfish conceited person - abandoning all - her family, her husband, and her lover.
Incidentally concerning the ending, she would need a passport to travel to Montreal,Canada, something I doubt she would have, given her insularity. Her lover, being a worldly fellow, would likely have asked her beforehand about a passport for the upcoming tournament in Belgium.