The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes81%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
36 audience votes
Key crew
- Bigas LunaDirector
- Bigas LunaScreenplay
- Jean-Louis BenoîtScreenplay
- Cuca CanalsScreenplay
- Alberto IglesiasOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Olivier MartinezHorty
- Aitana Sánchez-GijónMarie
- Romane BohringerZoe
- Didier BezaceSimeon
- Aldo MaccioneZeppe, Actor
- Jean-Marie JuanPascal
- Arno ChevrierAl
- Marianne GrovesMathilde
- Didier BénureauSimeon's Secretary
- Alberto CassadieGiovanni
- Giorgio GobbiManu
- Yves VerhoevenGaspard
Themes
titanic