Diary of a Chambermaid
Short description
The film follows Célestine, a Parisian woman who takes a position as a chambermaid for the Monteil household in the French provinces. The family she serves is far from conventional, and she soon has to navigate the peculiar habits of her employers and the tensions running through the estate. When a violent crime shocks the area, Célestine comes to suspect the groundskeeper, Joseph, and sets out to establish his guilt, a decision that draws her into a dangerous and unpredictable situation.
Luis Buñuel directed this adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel, working from a screenplay he wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière. It stands as the tenth of the fifteen films he directed in chronological order, arriving between Viridiana and Belle de Jour. Jeanne Moreau leads the cast as Célestine, with Georges Géret as Joseph, Michel Piccoli as Monsieur Monteil, Françoise Lugagne as Madame Monteil, Jean Ozenne as Monsieur Rabour, and Daniel Ivernel as Captain Mauger among the twenty-five credited performers. The film was produced by Serge Silberman and Michel Safra, and runs ninety-seven minutes.
On TMDB it holds a rating of 7.1 out of 10 from 244 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel "The Diary of a Chambermaid" (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, 1900).
- A fascist demonstration shouts: "Viva, Chappe." This is a reference to the head of the Parisian police, who banned "L'Âge d'Or" (1930) after Nazis entering Paris burned down the cinema where Buñuel's film had been showing.
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