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Mood:
Clever Bleak Biting
Plot:
Master and Servant Social Differences Family Relations Power Relations Boss and Employee Eccentric Family Family Life Crimes more...
Genres:
Drama Foreign Crime Period
Time/Period:
20th Century 30s
Place:
Europe France Estate
Praise:
Critically Acclaimed Essential
Humor:
Satire
Based on:
Based on Book
Attitudes:
Serious Realistic Slow
Look:
B&W

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Diary of a Chambermaid, 1964

Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli

Directed by: Luis Buñuel

Written by: Jean-Claude Carriere

Language: French

Country: France, Italy

Runtime: 101 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:7.6

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Profile of Diary of a Chambermaid

The mood of Diary of a Chambermaid is clever, biting, and bleak. The plot centers around masters and servants, social differences, and power relations. It features satire. Diary of a Chambermaid is a drama, foreign, and crime movie. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Diary of a Chambermaid takes place, at least partly, on an estate. The setting is France. It happens in the 1930s. Visually, Diary of a Chambermaid is black and white. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being essential viewing and critically acclaimed.

Summary of Diary of a Chambermaid

Luis Bunuel became the second filmmaker, after Jean Renoir, to adapt Octave Mirbeau's novel about a social-climbing chambermaid, and the upper-class home in which she works. However, Bunuel has updated the book by a quarter-century and veers from its words in order to stay true to its spirit. The story follows Celestine, who arrives at the Rabour-Monteil residence, where she encounters the family patriarch, a foot fetishist who cannot resist trying to seduce every maid; his resistant wife (who finds his "constant" demands for sex--twice a week--overwhelming); and, most important, Joseph, a fascistic and murderous man-servant who believes in maintaining France for the French... and who wants Celestine for his bride. A powerful and politically prescient film, that speaks to the present day as much as of the time in which it was made.