Search results
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 where she goes to work.
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
Openly, serenely delighted with how our own dreams can appall us, and how close movies are to that appalling dreaminess, Luis Buñuel may have been the greatest filmmaker of the first century. Certainly among the ten or twelve unassailable masters of the medium, he is the wittiest, the least sentimental, the most philosophically imaginative, and formally the most unceremonious. His career ...
When the producers of “Diary of a Chambermaid” asked the director if it was really necessary to retain this finale, Buñuel answered, In a characteristic jest, that he had made the picture ...
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. He digs right down ...
Jun 9, 2016 · This is the third sound-era filming of Octave Mirbeau's once-scandalous 1900 novel, adapted almost blithely by Jean Renoir in 1946 and more grimly by Luis Bunuel in 1964. The story pits subjugated ...
People also ask
What is Diary of a chambermaid about?
Who starred in Diary of a chambermaid?
Who wrote Diary of a chambermaid?
The Diary of a Chambermaid, the second main adaptation of the novel of the same name, is as Buñuelesque as you expect it to be, populated with eccentric rich people, political tension, shoe fetishes, perversion, female sexuality, Marxist ideology, and social climbing. Buñuel was an auteur before the term was even coined.
