Beautiful film. No doubt. Probably one of the more sugary ones. The solo performance half-way is breathtaking. However, overall it is hardly as tragic as people say. Very comic - maybe too comic and not as bitter for me.
"The destiny of the woman devoted to man is haunted by love: she who exploits the male fulfills herself in the cult of self-adoration. If she attaches such a price to her glory, it is not only for economic interest: she seeks there the apotheosis of her narcissism."de beauvoir