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The Chambermaid On The Titanic



The night before the Titanic departs, Horty meets a beautiful young woman named Marie, who explains that she is a chambermaid aboard the Titanic. Marie has nowhere to sleep because all of the local hotels are full, and Horty agrees to share his room. Their encounter is seemingly chaste, with Marie sleeping in the bed while Horty spends the night in the armchair. However, in the middle of the night, Marie tries to seduce him. Whether or not she succeeds is ambiguous, and she is gone when Horty awakes. Attending the departure of the Titanic, Horty spots a photographer taking a picture of Marie, and asks the photographer for the photo.




The Chambermaid on the Titanic



Upon returning home, Horty finds that he has been promoted, but this good news is dampened by rumors of an affair between his wife, Zoe, and the foundry owner, Simeon. A bitter and jealous Horty visits a local bar to drown his sorrows. Drunk, he tells friends and co-workers about the lovely chambermaid he met in Southampton, earning him free drinks and tips. Following the sinking of the Titanic, Horty's tales become increasingly erotic, and the viewer is never sure what is truth and what is fantasy.


The night before the Titanic departs, Horty meets a beautiful young woman named Marie, who explains that she is a chambermaid aboard the Titanic. Marie has nowhere to sleep because all of the local hotels are full, and Horty agrees to share his room. Their encounter is seemingly chaste, with Marie sleeping in the bed while Horty spends the night in the armchair. However, in the middle of the night Marie tries to seduce him. Whether or not she succeeds is ambiguous, and she is gone when Horty awakes. Attending the departure of the Titanic, Horty spots a photographer taking a picture of Marie, and asks the photographer for the photo.


Horty has barely settled into his Southhampton hotel room, when there is a knock on his door. A beautiful young French woman in a maid's uniform explains apologetically that she is a chambermaid on the ship who needs a place to sleep because all the local hotels are filled. Horty allows the woman, Marie (Aitana Sanchez Gijon), to stay with him and donates the bed while he moves to an armchair.


Horty, a French foundry worker, wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic. In England, Marie, saying she is a chambermaid on the Titanic and cannot get a room, asks to share his room. They do, chastely; when he awakens, she is gone, but he sees her at the sailing and gets a photo of her. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling an erotic fantasy of what happened with him and Marie, drawing a larger audience each night.


1912, Feuillange, in Lorraine. Sack of coal on his back, Horty wins, once more, the annual race organised by his foundry owner boss, Mr Siméon. His prize is priceless: a trip to Southampton to see the Titanic, before it sails on its maiden voyage. Horty goes alone, leaving behind his wife Zoé, whom Mr Siméon has his eye on. In England, Horty meets Marie, a young lady due to embark the next day on the Titanic as a chambermaid. She has no-where to spend the night. He gives her his bed. She quickly makes room for him... In the morning Horty awakes, alone. While the Titanic heads out to sea, Horty heads back to Lorraine. Of Marie, he has but a photo which he cherishes close to his breast. Back home, everything seems changed. Horty suspects Zoé of having yielded to the boss's advances. One evening he goes to the café, shows the photo of Marie and tells his pals of the night of love he'd spent with her. He tells to his liking, as only he really knows what happened that night in Southampton. He alone, as Marie's name wasn't on the list of survivors...Unless she managed, one way or another, to escape a watery grave...


As Horty settles into his plush hotel room in Southampton, he answers a knock to find a beautiful young woman standing at his door. Marie (A Walk in the Clouds' Aitana Sánchaz Gijón) has been hired as a chambermaid on the Titanic and all the rooms in the hotel are rented. She explains that the hotel desk suggested that Horty might be persuaded to give up his room to a lady in distress. Horty is a little vexed by her request, and upon seeing his hesitation, she quickly apologies and turns to leave. He stops her and suggests that they might work out an acceptable arrangement. Late into the night the beguiling Marie attempts to seduce Horty, but he manages to resist her charms, except in his dreams. In the morning, Horty wakes to find himself alone and is drawn to the dock by the sound of Titanic. From a distance, he recognizes Marie posing for a photographer. As the ship leaves port, Horty buys the photograph as a keepsake.


Things have changed back home and Horty is told he has been promoted to a new job in the foundry. His friends at the local pub make suggestions that Zoe is having an affair with his boss. Horty takes out Marie's photograph to pour over his lost opportunity, but is interrupted by one of his friends demanding to know who this beautiful chambermaid is. He begins with an innocent explanation, but no one wants to believe the truth. Horty, still tormented by Zoe's betrayal, and his own faithfulness, begins to tell an eloquently erotic tale of his night of passion in one of the luxurious rooms on the Titanic. When the news of Titanic's sinking reaches the town and Marie is not among the list of survivors, Horty becomes an instant tragic hero. Each night at the pub, the crowds grow larger and the intensity of Horty's story swells, the whole countryside is enthralled with his power of suggestion.


The Chambermaid on the Titanic is a testament to the lost art of romance, the fine line between fantasy and reality, and the sheer terror of the possibility of the fulfillment of one's fantasies. Regrettably, many of the French delicacies of the storytelling are lost in the English subtitles. That aside, the characters become beautiful in their turn of the century attire. Olivier Martinez is brilliant as the evolving actor, if initially a bit subdued. One of the best kept secrets in France, Olivier has that rare gift of poetic stares and breathtaking body language; subtleties the most devoted of old world romantics will find intoxicating. Romane Bohringer is perfect as Zoe, seduced by the lure of money and repelled by jealously and what it causes her to lose. Aitana Sánchaz Gijón is entrancing as the adored chambermaid. The simplistic style of "The Chambermaid on the Titanic" is commendably refreshing.


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. 041b061a72


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