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Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le journal d'une femme de chambre, Italian: Il diario di una cameriera) is a 1964 drama film directed by Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Buñuel and starring Jeanne Moreau as a Parisian chambermaid who uses her body and wiles to navigate the perversion, corruption, and violence she encounters at the provincial estate ...
Diary of a Chambermaid: Directed by Luis Buñuel. With Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Daniel Ivernel, Françoise Lugagne. A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.
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- Luis Buñuel
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- Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli
Diary of a Chambermaid. This wicked adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel is classic Luis Buñuel. Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with her philandering employer (Buñuel regular Michel Piccoli).
- Celestine
When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph (Georges Geret), is...
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- Jeanne Moreau
- Luis Buñuel
- Drama
Quite apart from a clever story (intelligently adapted from Mirbeau and previously filmed by Renoir), Diary Of A Chambermaid offers many delights, both to casual viewers and serious film analysts. Depending on your viewpoint, Moreau's many-sided performance is either a triumph for feminism or stands feminism on its head.
In the politically turbulent interwar '30s, modish Parisian beauty Celestine (Jeanne Moreau) relocates to the French countryside to work as a chambermaid for a provincial family. The various people she discovers in and around the household form a microcosmic rogues' gallery of moral turpitude.
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Sep 8, 2003 · Film. Review: Diary of a Chambermaid. The film is Buñuel’s most realist expression of his life-long fixation with ribbing bourgeois orders. by Ed Gonzalez. September 8, 2003. 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.