Daybreak Excerpt 3: François and Clara at the cabaret, visual and auditory dissolve; return of the music in the room (1’12”)

Excerpt 3

 Questions

1. Note the dissolve. What is the role of the music during this transition?
2. Describe the visual dissolve: what image replaces the door of the cabaret by which Valentin leaves? What happens, on both the visual and auditory planes, in the second part of the dissolve. Why?
3.

What do we see in the following shot? Why is it logical that the background music begins again at that precise moment?