It's a movie about the impossibility to be near to someone. It is also about the emptiness of (modern) life, the mechanical way sex has entered our world and the human deficiency. Claire is victim of a obviously broken family and a lonely mother (no one at the funeral except the daughter) and she (Claire) is likely to repeat this way of life. The last frame , alone, in a dark room softly singing for her fetus. (it's heartbreaking) Probably did she lend the money for her mother from a member of the soprano family. The sex with well to do "gentlemen" is depressing to see. It lingers in your mind. The taxi driver is a nice guy but has not the stamina to do the right thing en can't cope with what he suspects Claire is doing. Also a deficiency and he has to hire a call girl to understand. It is a pessimistic view the director made us aware of in his film. But what a masterly filmed movie. every still is right at the point en he shocks you, see the way the money collector disposes of the cat! And what a nice family man he is. It is all very depressing and very of our time and very very good indeed.
Review of Claire Dolan
