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For 90% of the movie, we're involved in an ensemble piece, with no

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particular characters predominating. The film is a set theater piece of what Balzac would have termed "manners."
We have a small denouement at the end, several characters bid one another a rather extended, drawn out "good night," and then... we're transported to a private hotel chamber with a searing, soul-baring flood of conjugal emotion. The story was touching, of course, but it almost seemed like another story grafted onto the festive one.
I didn't think it fit, at all.
Kind of like having a pratfall immediately after the evisceration scene in "Braveheart," it just seemed contrived, added on, perhaps manipulative.
All that being said, it was a masterful scene so one is loathe to complain too much.

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