"Life is a shipwreck." What an incredible French line. Fascinating french film about a group of eccentric guests at a Parisian boarding house in 1913 (or 1912 and one, as they superstitiously say). Julie leaves her young son and travels to Paris to be a chambermaid at a run down boarding house. She soon has an affair with a German writer, who is complete jerk, gets her pregnant, tells her he can't stand her in order to force her to have an abortion, then runs off with a rich American woman. Its Europe on the edge of WWI - a fascinating time. No one forsees the devastation about to happen. The smugness of the rich, the endurance of the poor, no one connected to one another, the inherent human phoniness - all a backdrop for the impending Great War. Julie is single because....her husband was killed on the Titanic, traveling to America to begin a new life for them. "La vie est un naufrage" she says, "Life is a shipwreck." Qui. I managed to get about 20 foreign films, mostly from France, at church last sunday, someone works at a video store, and they received promotional DVD's for foreign films (which they dont buy). I am watching some great films - set in Glasgow, Barcelona - all over Europe.
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