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La femme de chambre du Titanic

  • 1997
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  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
1.5K
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La femme de chambre du Titanic (1997)
DramaRomance

An ordinary foundry worker fakes a love story between him and the chambermaid from RMS Titanic. When ship sinks and chambermaid probably dies, his story gains popularity. But lie always has ... Read allAn ordinary foundry worker fakes a love story between him and the chambermaid from RMS Titanic. When ship sinks and chambermaid probably dies, his story gains popularity. But lie always has its price.An ordinary foundry worker fakes a love story between him and the chambermaid from RMS Titanic. When ship sinks and chambermaid probably dies, his story gains popularity. But lie always has its price.

  • Director
    • Bigas Luna
  • Writers
    • Cuca Canals
    • Jean-Louis Benoît
    • Bigas Luna
  • Stars
    • Olivier Martinez
    • Romane Bohringer
    • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.6/10
    1.5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Bigas Luna
    • Writers
      • Cuca Canals
      • Jean-Louis Benoît
      • Bigas Luna
    • Stars
      • Olivier Martinez
      • Romane Bohringer
      • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
    • 19User reviews
    • 25Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 4 nominations total

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    Olivier Martinez
    Olivier Martinez
    • Horty
    Romane Bohringer
    Romane Bohringer
    • Zoe
    Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
    Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
    • Marie
    Didier Bezace
    • Simeon
    Aldo Maccione
    Aldo Maccione
    • Zeppe, Actor
    Jean-Marie Juan
    • Pascal
    Arno Chevrier
    • Al
    Marianne Groves
    • Mathilde
    Didier Bénureau
    • Simeon's Secretary
    Alberto Cassadie
    • Giovanni
    Giorgio Gobbi
    • Manu
    Yves Verhoeven
    • Gaspard
    Enzo Decaro
    • Lacroix
    • (as Vincenzo De Caro)
    Salvador Madrid
    • Leon
    Barbara Lerici
    Barbara Lerici
    • Blanche
    Stefania Orsola Garello
    • Mimi
    Maurizio Solda
    • Lou
    Jim Adhi Limas
    Jim Adhi Limas
    • Chinese Photographer
    • Director
      • Bigas Luna
    • Writers
      • Cuca Canals
      • Jean-Louis Benoît
      • Bigas Luna
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    User reviews19

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    8jsathish29

    Unsinkable story,acting,directorial

    If you getting into this movie without expectation you will enjoy more .i started seeing this movie for just the sex scene but this movie dragged me on,will dragged you in too
    8MarioB

    Very intelligent movie

    This collaboration between France and Italy is simply a very original movie, with a scrip of a great intelligence. We don't really know if Olivier Martinez is telling lies, but like the people who listen to him, we want to hear him and believe him. And like in a great short story of litterature, we know the true at the end, but the director told us, in a little part, that it's not really sure... The idea of shows in little theatres, by the last half of the film, is simply brillant. I have study the reaction of people with melodrama at this time of the 20th century, and we saw that in this film

    exactly like it was in the early 1910's. This is truly a wonderful movie.
    6ma-cortes

    Overlong Spanish/French/Italian co-production with great cast and nice production design

    An ordinary foundry worker called Horty : Olivier Martinez wins a strongman contest and his prize is a trip to Southampton to see the launch of the Titanic. In England, Marie : Aitana Sanchez Gijon , 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 ship sinks in 1912 and chambermaid probably dies, his story gains popularity. But lie always has its price. When he returns home, he suspects that his wife Zoe : Romane Bohringer, has been sleeping with Simeon, the foundry owner. Horty goes to the bar, where his friends get him drunk and he starts telling his past incidents and gradually beginning to believe his own lies about his passionate escapade. There was more than one love story on the Titanic !.

    A romantic and slow-moving drama based upon the novel by Didier Decoin about the erotic fantasy of what happened our starring and Marie , as he becomes a story teller drawing a larger audience each night , while he fakes a love story between him and the chambermaid from RMS Titanic. The peculiar filmmaker Bigas Luna (Jamon Jamon, Yo Soy La Juani) directs this co-production starring Olvier Martinez (Unfaithful), Aitana Sánchez Gijón (La Carta Esferica) and Romane Bohringer (Vigo) . Passable interpretation from Olivier Martinez as Horty, a French foundry worker who wins a contest and is sent to see the sailing of the Titanic while meets a beautiful chambermaid called Maria, finely performed by Aitana Sánchez Gijón, with whom he shares the hotel room .

    The motion picture was decently directed by Bigas Luna , following his particular style , though displays a number of flaws and gaps. He often uses in his films twisted events , erotic scenes and surrealist images. Luna was a Bon Vivant who along with his wife, produced wine, ham, and organic products ; they are well shown in his films . In 1990 producer Andrés Vicente Gómez persuaded him to return to cinema and entrusted to him the direction of Las Edades De Lulú (The Ages of Lulu), an erotic drama about a young woman exploring extreme sexual practices , this was a commercial success . Without abandoning his dedication to painting and photography, reflected in numerous exhibitions, he began the well-known "Iberian Trilogy" with Jamón Jamón ("Ham, Ham", 1992), Huevos de Oro ("Golden Balls", 1993) and La Teta y La Luna ("The Tit and the Moon", 1994). Jamón Jamón, which launched the careers of both Javier Bardem and the 16-year-old Penélope Cruz was a major international success and won the Silver Lion at Venice in 1992. Cruz returned in Volavérunt (1999), a film about the relationship between Francisco Goya and the Duchess of Alba . This film ¨La femme de chambre du Titanic (1997)¨ is stylishly photographed and smartly designed and here Bigas Luna delivers his ordinary and erotic goods in cool sense of style . Rating : 5.5/10 . Acceptable and passable but a bit boring.
    9row333au

    what makes this a cult movie?

    because this film is a poetry...

    the developing prose of the story with the abstract implying ideas (specially the suggestive narrative story telling) that synchronize in the rhythmical scenes and intense drama of passion, along the scripts playing with language from polite to vulgar.... and then there's how it's filmed rich in emotion from all the characters even by the by-standers, with an almost accurate period movie where past early after turn of the 20th century we get to glimpse travel.... but at always this film remain or kept itself simplistic in style despite the intricate weaving and integrating of the art of old world romance, dark mystery movie and sarcastic humour in suppress comedy, while the drama of human conflicts and aspirations are all in one (it all depends on your receptors at the time of watching)... or very accessible to watch...

    and then there is the way of how contrasting dimensional realities (but naturally looked at as life) becomes romantic even in the hindsight tragic of titanic (distasteful exploitation of as soon as that event happened)... and then on top of even another dimension is that the story is focus on the fantasy element - huge passionate erotic romantic narration that are all base to the "keep coming back to that ultimate one-night stand" which is the center of the plot....

    For instance: life in the smelters or foundry, the peasantry lower working families of rural mining processor towns, the intrigues and the theatrics of salacious subject matter have driven the pheasant existence of workers who could only dream of what's life in opulence, of experiencing real passionate romantic escapade in the midst of luxury even as a servitude (instead of just daily toiling and working to meet the basic necessity in the back-draft of small rural factory town)... sexual passion with a sensual stranger in forms of flashbacks that make one wonder of life beyond the town.... the main character's fantasy is now the town's.... whereby it begins to represent the workers' escape of a humdrum life, as all they want is to be entertained with stories of concocted true events or fantastic lies well put together..... which really is the component (patronizing crowd audience) and what is binding to the elements (the story telling or narrative) of the film...

    what really is surprising and very much what makes treasure of the film is between Olivier Martinez and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon chemistry and real genuine passion, that's hard to fake sensual romantic intensity, as much as naturally born sexiness, sex appeal and good looks cannot be faked either....
    9robert-temple-1

    Ironical romantic film about the differences between dreams and reality

    This is a French film directed by the Spanish director Bigas Luna, who has done a very good job with a difficult and ambiguous subject, which alternates between reality and fantasy so often that it is like a shuttle service. One really does not know from one scene to the next whether something is really happening or is being imagined. That is a tightrope, but Luna does not fall off. In this, he is assisted by the dreamy performances of Olivier Martinez (half French, half Spanish-Moroccan) and the well known Spanish actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. Both of them keep us wondering all the way. The only solid earthy figure is Romane Bohringer, being as Anna Magnani-like as possible, a young earth mother, but still an earth mother. There is lots of passion, it's all over the place. Sometimes it is real, sometimes it is fantasy. One never knows for sure about some of it. When Martinez is telling his stories, his quiet, introspective but commanding presence effects us as much as it does his audiences in the film. Romane gets a bit carried away by the myth of the chambermaid and wishes to become the chambermaid, wishes to be sprayed in champagne. The chambermaid was not listed amongst the survivors of the Titanic, so this creates a story steeped in tragedy. People like tragic passion best, because it is unattainable by definition, and can never disappoint. Or can it? Perhaps things are not entirely as they seem in more ways than one in this story. This film shows clearly how love and sensuality thrive in the hothouse of ambivalence and ambiguity: does someone really exist? Do they feel love too? Is the love simulated? Can any passion be trusted? Ultimately, it comes down to this: is reality even real?

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    • Goofs
      When the Titanic is seen leaving the dock, smoke is coming from four funnels. On the real ship, the fourth smokestack was a dummy.
    • Soundtracks
      Andante Cantabile - Piano Quartet in E Flat, Op. 47
      Written by Robert Schumann

      Performed by Beaux Arts Trio

      Courtesy of Polygram Projects Spéciaux

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    • Release date
      • November 5, 1997 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Italy
      • Germany
      • Spain
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Chambermaid on the Titanic
    • Filming locations
      • Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
    • Production companies
      • UGC YM
      • La Sept Cinéma
      • France 2 Cinéma
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $244,465
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,902
      • Aug 16, 1998
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,638,788
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 41m(101 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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