Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

1964
★★★★☆ 7.1/10
⏱️ 97 minutes
📅 Released
🌐 FR
DramaComedy
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. 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, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

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Cast

Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
Céléstine
Georges Géret
Georges Géret
Joseph
Michel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli
Monsieur Monteil
Françoise Lugagne
Françoise Lugagne
Madame Monteil
Jean Ozenne
Jean Ozenne
Monsieur Rabour
Daniel Ivernel
Daniel Ivernel
Captain Mauger

User Reviews

talisencrw
★ 9/10
Solid. One of my favourites, both in terms of Bunuel (my 4th favourite director ever) and of Moreau. Sheer, unadulterated genius. There was never anyone quite like him and there never will be again--and that's a dirty rotten shame. Paraphrasing David Thomson, he once said that every film frame from both Renoir or Bunuel was perfectly shot. And thankfully he was accurate.
August 12, 2016

Crew

Director
Luis Buñuel
Writer
Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Producer
Michel Safra, Serge Silberman

Production

Spéva Films, Ciné-Alliance, Filmsonor

Keywords

pedophiliarapefrancebased on novel or booksocietysadismsexualityfrigidityfetishismmarriage