Alice (Ariane Labed 'The Lobster') is an engineer on a cargo ship. She has a handsome and doting boyfriend who is Norwegian – Felix (Andres Danielsen Lie 'Oslo 31 August') and after returning from a voyage she hops into 'the sack' with him before going off to replace a dead engineer on the 'Fedelio'. Only this is a ship which has been renamed and is actually the ship she apprenticed on, and worse still the sultry captain with matinée idol good looks who was her first love is now her boss and married.
Well soon they are all at sea – in more ways than one and she reveals that as a woman 'she has needs' and knows how to fulfil them. So begins her 'odyssey'. She also indulges in the belongings of the dead engineer piecing together his wayfaring life through diary entries and pictures. However what this really develops into is a voyage of self discovery.
Now this has a lot of bedroom gymnastics in it and to put it mildly she 'arrives' faster than an Uber cab. Now I am all fine with that sort of thing but the story – like the journey – meanders in places and at times it is hard to know why a scene was included. That too is fine as the relevance of all reveals itself in the final denouement. All in all a very accomplished film but not one that is an entry to French films but more for those who really like a bit of Gallic difference.
Well soon they are all at sea – in more ways than one and she reveals that as a woman 'she has needs' and knows how to fulfil them. So begins her 'odyssey'. She also indulges in the belongings of the dead engineer piecing together his wayfaring life through diary entries and pictures. However what this really develops into is a voyage of self discovery.
Now this has a lot of bedroom gymnastics in it and to put it mildly she 'arrives' faster than an Uber cab. Now I am all fine with that sort of thing but the story – like the journey – meanders in places and at times it is hard to know why a scene was included. That too is fine as the relevance of all reveals itself in the final denouement. All in all a very accomplished film but not one that is an entry to French films but more for those who really like a bit of Gallic difference.