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Le journal d'une femme de chambre (1964)
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Release Date:
9 March 1965 (USA)
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Plot:
Celestine, the chambermaid has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people...
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1 win
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Finally a Bunuel film I can make sense of! Oh, nevermind.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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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Also Known As:
Diary of a Chambermaid (USA)
Il diario di una cameriera (Italy)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (UK)
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Il diario di una cameriera (Italy)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (UK)
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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.
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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.