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- Luis Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid was a crucial turning point in his career because it would officially usher in the French period of the director’s later years.
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Filmed in luxurious black-and-white Franscope, _Diary of a Chambermaid_ is a raw-edged tangle of fetishism and murder—and a scathing look at the burgeoning French fascism of the era. This wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Buñuel.
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Sep 10, 2012 · Octave Mirbeau's muckraking 1900 novel has abiding insight into the deep structures of French political instability. Buñuel shifts the story to the rise of Fascism in the '30s.
Jun 22, 2003 · Indeed, in “Diary of a Chambermaid” it’s the coolness of Bunuel’s manner, as impassive as that of an entomologist, which rescues the child’s death from bathos.
Nov 3, 2019 · “A few years back, I dived into the French produced films of Luis Buñuel. My eyes were bombarded with images and ideas, so condensed and constant as to feel exhausted and exhilarated after each film.
Apr 27, 2009 · Film review: THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (Luis Buñuel, 1964) " She's more than just a servant, she's a rarity among women " is noted of Jeanne Moreau's Céléstine, a Parisian maid who comes to work for the eccentric Normandy family conprising of Monsieur Rabour, his daughter Madame Monteil and her husband Monsieur Rabour.
Jun 4, 2001 · Certainly, Diary of a Chambermaid requires critical rehabilitation, if not from malignance, then from neglect. Set on a French manor during the uneasy 1930s but as timeless as neighbor hate and forgotten injustice, the film pivots on Buñuel’s favorite subject: men twisted inside like rope by the tensions of their own absurd desires, and by ...
