I really liked the movie, it's black and white canvas, retro atmosphere and beautiful cheerful love scenes. My favorite one is Claudia's retrospective of Mayakovsky which is a testimony to her interesting, rebellious and unique character.
In my own interpretation this is a story about being in ecstasy of ideal, and then spontaneously losing it. There are two parallels, two relations between the past (Louis's broken marriage) and the present (his passionate relationship with Claudia). The past allows as interpreting through the suggestion. His wife is calm, gentle, great mother, who clearly still loves him, as she begs not to be left alone. We can only imagine the love prior the separation, wich came after losing an ideal and getting a new, more exciting one. Claudia represents more interesting, passionate star.
A metaphor in the movie is the apartment. In the begging it's a love nest of two people in love. Later on, through the eyes of Claudia, it's "ugly and depressing". It symbolizes the facade of their relationship, of their happiness. Everything is perfect, they are both happy, yet, they both cheat on each other repeatedly. Moving from one, small apartment, to the bigger one, symbolises Claudia's losing ideal in Louis, and gaining the new one in her new man.
Claudia's ideal could be seen in her troubling career, as well. She is represented to us as an "talented actress whose big wings stop her from walking", yet she hasn't had an acting job in 6 years. It seems like it's another facade, she can't or won't fulfill.
Jealousy, characterised through Louis represents the loss of our current ideal, the ecstasy and so called purpose of our own living. He romanticized the idea of love and happiness, that he is willing to die because of losing it (even though it was already lost).
The ending is filled with obscure silence (few moments before music kicks in) and they are a perfect, yet anticlimactic ending. At the end, the difference between passion and true love was transparent. It explained the difference between being in love, and truly loving. Love is silent, caring and without turmoils. It's comfortable and safe. In the end, all he has left is his family.
Little daughter is autobiographical representation of the movie director.
In my own interpretation this is a story about being in ecstasy of ideal, and then spontaneously losing it. There are two parallels, two relations between the past (Louis's broken marriage) and the present (his passionate relationship with Claudia). The past allows as interpreting through the suggestion. His wife is calm, gentle, great mother, who clearly still loves him, as she begs not to be left alone. We can only imagine the love prior the separation, wich came after losing an ideal and getting a new, more exciting one. Claudia represents more interesting, passionate star.
A metaphor in the movie is the apartment. In the begging it's a love nest of two people in love. Later on, through the eyes of Claudia, it's "ugly and depressing". It symbolizes the facade of their relationship, of their happiness. Everything is perfect, they are both happy, yet, they both cheat on each other repeatedly. Moving from one, small apartment, to the bigger one, symbolises Claudia's losing ideal in Louis, and gaining the new one in her new man.
Claudia's ideal could be seen in her troubling career, as well. She is represented to us as an "talented actress whose big wings stop her from walking", yet she hasn't had an acting job in 6 years. It seems like it's another facade, she can't or won't fulfill.
Jealousy, characterised through Louis represents the loss of our current ideal, the ecstasy and so called purpose of our own living. He romanticized the idea of love and happiness, that he is willing to die because of losing it (even though it was already lost).
The ending is filled with obscure silence (few moments before music kicks in) and they are a perfect, yet anticlimactic ending. At the end, the difference between passion and true love was transparent. It explained the difference between being in love, and truly loving. Love is silent, caring and without turmoils. It's comfortable and safe. In the end, all he has left is his family.
Little daughter is autobiographical representation of the movie director.