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Release Date:
9 March 1965 (USA) more
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Celestine, the chambermaid has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people... more | add synopsis
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Finally a Bunuel film I can make sense of! Oh, nevermind. more (28 total)

Cast

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Jeanne Moreau ... Céléstine
Georges Géret ... Joseph
Daniel Ivernel ... Captain Mauger
Françoise Lugagne ... Madame Monteil
Muni ... Marianne
Jean Ozenne ... Monsieur Rabour
Michel Piccoli ... Monsieur Monteil
Joëlle Bernard
Françoise Bertin
Aline Bertrand
Pierre Collet
Michel Dacquid
Madeleine Damien
Marc Eyraud ... Le secrétaire du commissaire
Jean Franval
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Diary of a Chambermaid (USA)
Il diario di una cameriera (Italy)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (UK)
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Runtime:
101 min | France:97 min | Brazil:94 min | Argentina:97 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Ireland:12 (DVD rating) | UK:12 (video rating) (2001) | UK:15 (video rating) (1993) | UK:AA (original rating) (1981) | West Germany:12 (w)
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The demonstrating fascists shout "Vive Chiappe", a homage to the chief of the Parisian police who prohibited showing director Luis Buñuel's earlier film L'âge d'or (1930) after fascists destroyed the cinema where it was being shown. more
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Referenced in Chappaqua (1966) more

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Finally a Bunuel film I can make sense of! Oh, nevermind., 31 October 1998
Author: Gregory P. Dorr from Portland, OR

This is the most straight-forward film I've seen by the surrealist master Bunuel, and despite its cryptic turn in the final moments, is funny, chilling, and a bit nasty. The story follows an urbane chambermaid from Paris who comes to work at the country estate of a repressed bourgeosie family. She weathers passes from every man in sight and deflects them, but for morally ambiguous reasons. Moral ambiguity is rampant, as it is so often in Bunuel's films, and spread liberally amongst all classes. It's subtly a film about selling out, except that nobody seemed to have any principles to begin with. Good fun. Now tell me what the ending was all about.

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