do not go to this movie if you haven not read the book by the flemish writer willem elschot . this movie be very boring and lack all interest because you can not identify with the character . do grünewald ( shaun dingwall ) love louise créteur ( jules delpy ) or not . do he become a deserter at the end or be he kill in the war . why do the german commit suicide . what happen with the old woman gendron ( dora van der groen ) . grünewald must be something of a german superman that an american widow fall in love with him at first sight . this movie be slow and dark and be it always rain in paris . behalf of that you do not feel the parisian atmosphere . it could be london at the end of the 19th century or even a german town at the same period . the lawyer ( he be a lawyer ) and who be the real chief of the pension have no personality at all and he could as well be the postman ringing at the door . the end of the movie be the best represent then at last you see that louise créteur have feeling and that she can cry . every time that grünewald want to declare his love and somebody intervenes very artificially to interrupt their tentative to some conversation . be grünewald the man with black hair who be go to ruin the life of louise a a fortune speller predicts . the abortion seem to be do so that grünewald never know it and which be impossible . and how do grünewald react to this remain also a mystery . the war scene be superfluous and without interest . everybody play on the piano in this hotel which be also without interest . the friendship with the other servant be uncomprehensible and why be she so honest . be she really her friend . she have nothing to win by be her friend . this movie be full of riddle and at the end you say represent let this soon be over and please .