Celestine, the chambermaid, has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people. The wife is frigid, her husband is always hunting (both animals and ...
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Title: Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
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| Jeanne Moreau | ... | Céléstine | |
| Georges Géret | ... | Joseph | |
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Daniel Ivernel | ... | M Mauger |
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Françoise Lugagne | ... | Mme Monteil |
| Muni | ... | Marianne | |
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Jean Ozenne | ... | M Rabour |
| Michel Piccoli | ... | M Monteil | |
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Joëlle Bernard | ... | (as Joelle Bernard) |
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Françoise Bertin | ||
| Jean-Claude Carrière | ... | Le curé | |
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Aline Bertrand | ... | La voyageuse |
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Pierre Collet | ... | Le voyageur |
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Michel Dacquin | ... | (as Michel Dacquid) |
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Madeleine Damien | ... | La cuisinière des Monteil |
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Marc Eyraud | ... | Le secrétaire du commissaire |
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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. The wife is frigid, her husband is always hunting (both animals and women) and her father is a shoe-fetishist. Joseph, the farm-labourer is a fascist and sexually attracted to Celestine. Celestine settles herself and talks to the neighbour, an ex-officer, who likes damaging his neighbour's things. After the death of the old man, she quits her job, but because of the rape and murder of a child 'Little Claire' she decides to stay, believing that Joseph is the murderer. To get his confession she sleeps with him and promises to marry him. In spite of her engagement she fakes evidence to implicate him in the murder. He is arrested, but is released because the evidence is inconclusive. She marries the ex-officer and takes on a housewife role similar to that of Madame Monteil. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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Language:
FrenchRelease Date:
9 March 1965 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$4,432, 15 October 2000, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$17,754, 17 December 2000Company Credits
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Céléstine: Are you from the priory?
Joseph: Yes.
Céléstine: Is it far?
Joseph: You'll see.
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The protest at the end of the film, is based on a real protest which took place in 1934. The Far-right leagues (Ligues d'extrême droite) were protesting about the removal of Jean Chiappe from his position as Prefect of Police by Édouard Daladier, president of the Conseil (Council), France's governing body. See more »Goofs
At the train station, Célestine is supposed to be returning to Paris but she's waiting on the wrong side of the tracks: In one shot, one can clearly read "Direction Paris" on the other side. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Céléstine: Are you from the priory?
Joseph: Yes.
Céléstine: Is it far?
Joseph: You'll see.
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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.