The Chambermaid on the Titanic La femme de chambre du Titanic
Plot
Southampton 1912. Horty, a married French factory worker, won a prize ticket to watch the Titanic set sail. While at the dock, he shares his room overnight with Marie, who says she is a chambermaid on the ship. Upon his return home, he begins to tell everyone about his adventure, invoking the envy of his friends and the jealousy of his wife Zoe. Hired by a theater manager he continues to tell his stories in front of paying spectators, until Marie reappears. A parable on lies as a source for artistic creation, on erotic obsession turned into a fable, on the metamorphosis of an ordinary man into a performing and desiring machine, on the symbiosis between real and imaginary.
Review
Bigas Luna is an intelligent director able to evoke veiled suggestive eroticism. The quality of this film is polished to a brilliant shine moving between a wink to the Titanic sinking in the background of the story and the great affection for the fabrications of imagination. Aldo Maccione is wonderful in the part of the theater manager.
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