the 'poor' flute player


so mysterious this charactor..
i mean seeing him getting out of that black car, kissing the good looking lady and than going back playing his flute..
a scene before we hear from the slot(sry cant recall her name) that he's gone and left his flute in the street.
what do you have to say about the flute player?
what was his addition to the plot?
i'll just say that i dont understand why he's not shown in the very end of the film where all the charactors are shown for a few seconds.(the mother, the teenager and so on..)
this scene at the end comes to show us viewers or help us assume about the future of each one of them, but the flute player, he's not shown.
why?

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Hello

In the dvd version there is an interview of Kieslowski: he says the flute player is just used for expressing that similar melodies can be created by different people, coming from different social background...

But this explanation seems a bit too light...
According to me, he is the symbol of the dead husband.
First they composed the same music; then they both lead a double life: the beggar seems to know a strange rich woman and the husband cheats on Julie.
Moreover Julie's husband doesn't appear in the last scene and the flute player is not shown either.

I imagined this interpretation when I saw the café scene.
During the sequence where she's in the café with Benoit, the flute player is there!
While she stares at the sugar cube absorbing, the coffee she actually wants to isolate hersef from her husband and his music (played by the beggar) but also from Benoit (althouth he said he loves her).

I've seen this movie only once (yesterday) so my interpretation is maybe a bit shaky...

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first of all her husband didn't compose the music himself,Julie did.and the beggar does not lead a double life,he begs for money on the street and obviously that's what he takes from the rich woman,in exchange to his company.so i don't believe he symbolizes her husband. in my opinion he symbolizes a better version of Julie.he obviously has liberated himself from his past (he has nothing to hold him back,he owns nearly nothing, he's free to spend his time wherever he wants), he contributes to other people's lives (he follows the rich lady, he puses Julie in his way to continue to write her music, he makes the day of passing people a bit more beautiful with his music),but he also keeps something to himself (his spot, his flute, his music, his freedom),and that's the advice he gives Julie too.to keep something for herself. and that's what julie achieves by the end.he gives the young man the cross, a symbol he can believe in, a helping hand in his time of need,a pinch of hope and peacefulness.she gives her house and her husbands name to the lover of her husband, she offers her a new life with dignity and prosperity. she offers herself to Olivier, and she stands by her mother even though she seems to have lost it with age. but in the end she leaves her last teardrop fall,she lets her emotions express themselves and free her from the chains the death of her beloved and her life in the shadow of her husband left her with.she's given up every thing she owns but she kept her freedom for herself.and now she's not afraid to fall in love all over again even though she stated that love is a trap,cos she knows she's free to be free whenever she wants.

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