The Chambermaid on the Titanic Movie Review
The Chambermaid on the Titanic Review
"The Chambermaid on the Titanic" Overview
Rating: NR
1997
Cast and Crew
Director : J.J. Bigas LunaProducer : Yves Marmion,Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Screenwiter : Cuca Canals,Jean-Louis Benoît,J.J. Bigas Luna
Starring : Olivier Martinez,Romane Bohringer,Aitana Sánchez-Gijón,Didier Bezace,Aldo Maccione,Jean-Marie Juan
Listen up! A guy named Horty (Martinez) wins a race of endurance and strength
in his industrial zone in France. His prize: Go to Britain to witness the
sailing of the Titanic (not to be on the Titanic, mind you). In his hotel, a
woman (Sánchez-Gijón) saying she's a chambermaid on the boat asks to share his
room. She leaves in the middle of the night.
Horty becomes fascinated with the woman and invents a romance between them,
telling this story to everyone back home, including his girlfriend Zoe (the
uniquely UNappealing Bohringer). The stories get so wild as to include
champagne being poured all over the chambermaid!
Horty soon becomes an actor and tells this story, you know, for money. Still
paying attention? The Chambermaid is so surrealistic and at the same time
frivolous that it borders on trite and even nonsensical. The ending feels
manufactured and not altogether compelling, and the subtitles are so small they
are nearly unreadable.
Aka La Femme de chambre du Titanic.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
