I've seen the film yesterday in Istanbul during the International Film Festival. The cinema was full...
On the whole I had the impression that Paul Auster, his personality, his world was in this film and therefor I liked it.
I love the attitude of Paul Auster towards life. And when I went out of the cinema I felt enriched...I had the feeling as if I really had experienced something :
it was a special, almost unreal kind of love, but I think that this is actually the only possible kind of love. Somewhere I've read,that Claire stands for the inspiration of the author Martin Frost...but actually we can go further, because the essence of inspiration is Love. And therefor for me Claire is the essence of the love between Claire and Martin - incarnated by her. Claire (like the love between two persons, wether percepted or accepted or not) simply IS...she does'nt want anything, doesn't force or influence anything. She simply is this love and she knows it. That's all...
Thank you Paul Auster!