.It was actually love stories rolled into one: love of art, especially Impressionism, the Platonic love of an older man for his younger apprentice; the love of the young woman for a passionate artist; and the false love used to manipulate that the con man initially feigned for the young woman.
What I liked most was how well it communicated the love of art that caused me to rekindle my own feelings about art and want to learn more about it.