( warn contains mild spoiler ) the somewhat unresolved nature of the very last scene be ultimately dissatisfying and leave a feeling that the film may have be inherently overly familiar a chronicle of a straight laced and unsatisfied couple who taste forbidden fruit and be almost ruin by it . the film air of calm scrutiny be generally engross though and a it sketch the quiet disappointment and compromise of rural small business while a life catch up by routine and where year go by without a vacation . the plot initially find the couple fascinate by sheer difference and leave an enjoyable ambiguity a to whether there any real sexual attraction on berling part toward merhar and or whether it largely a matter of intertwined ego and loneliness and and a symbolic yielding to the limitation of his life ( the sexual encounter here look like a pure power play ) . but the film restraint make it easy to take for the most part a a low key and well observed black comedy and thriving on the contrast between the ultra orderly dry cleaning business and the flashy excess of the cross dress scene .