Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

  • Director: Luis Buñuel
  • Writer: Octave Mirbeau,Luis Buñuel,Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Countries of origin: France, Italy
  • Language: French
  • Release date: March 9, 1965
  • Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Dnevnik jedne sobarice
  • "Diary of a Chambermaid" is a feature film directed by Luis Buñuel and starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli . It mainly tells the story of a cook.
    The film, as always, takes aim at the bourgeoisie, powerfully attacking these degenerate and hypocritical guys and hypocritical and absurd class system, portraying their corrupt and arrogant world, and suggesting that their way of life is one of the reasons for the rise of the Nazis. The film expresses abundantly that the lower classes want to improve their class status through resistance, but the director's ambiguous attitude paints their resistance politically. Of course, Bunuel's surreal brushstrokes also play a role in this film.

    Details

    • Release date March 9, 1965
    • Filming locations Milly-la-forêt, Essonne, France
    • Production companies Ciné-Alliance, Filmsonor, Spéva Films

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $126

    Movie reviews

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    • By Gregorio 2022-11-30 22:36:13

      The Handmaid's Diaries movie script

      "The Maid's Diary" Movie

      Text / [French] Luis Buñuel,
      translated by Jean-Claude Carlier / The

      arrival of the maid of Xinhe

      1.
      In 1928, there was a small station somewhere in the introspection. The train had just stopped when a young woman stepped onto the platform, with two or three passengers behind her. She carried a suitcase and a small bag with her and was dressed quite elegantly. Wear a soft hat on your head and a pair of patent leather shoes on...

    • By Jazmyne 2022-11-28 15:11:32

      "Anti-Semitic" Thoughts Caused by a Rape and Murder

      If you don't understand the social and political situation in France in the 1920s and 1930s, then there may be too much confusion about the plot arrangement in the movie "The Handmaid's Diary".

      Because, the main part of the film revolves around a maid named Christina, who tells the story of her service to the Montais, a middle-class family in the French...

    • By Clark 2022-11-28 14:49:52

      Reality is forever, a move is forever

            There was a mountaineering competition in the afternoon. A few days ago, our director Zheng Lizhen came to my office and tried to invite me to participate in this event. This morning, she came and let me off the plane coldly. Damn, this old woman is really annoying, not to mention that we always overcharged us when we evaluated the second-level professional title last time, and today he still lingers on me when he is recruited, hum, next time If you want to ask me to do something,...

    • By Jude 2022-11-24 09:23:57

      The first literary beauty

      I was relieved to hear that this was Buñuel's most obscure film, because I wasn't the only one confused.
      The main reason for the confusion is that there is no guiding ideology for the actions of the characters. Until the little girl was murdered, the maid's behavior was quite normal, but it was only seen that she did not completely reject the seduction of the old and young male masters, and even enjoyed it during this period. The only people she hates are "hunters". She likes little...

    • By Velva 2022-11-24 02:12:04

      The Maid's Diary

      Buñuel's abandonment of absurd surreal reality makes the film even more obscure. Even with a realistic approach, the narrative is also different from classic Hollywood narratives or modern narratives, but it has a very alienating feeling. The maid is a mystery, her justice and unscrupulous efforts to squeeze into this class. The release of Joseph, the dark cloud at the end credits is the beginning of the disaster in Europe. Buñuel's scheduling is too subtle!
      "The Handmaid's Diary" is...

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    • By Brandy 2023-08-07 03:41:03

      Indecipherable text. From the initial acupuncture to the lightning and thunder at the end, the irony of class is neither painful nor itchy. The motives of the heroine are also more ambiguous. There are a few surreal shadows that are hard to capture in the text, but not...

    • By Thea 2023-06-27 20:18:30

      Awesome! Classic technique textbook and cloth foot...

    • By Titus 2023-05-02 01:46:03

      Buñuel's first and only anamorphic film. Criticizing bourgeois society from the perspective of a maid, while shifting the background of the era from the 19th century to the late 1920s, it highlights the anti-Semitic and anti-Bolshevis thought in France between World War I and World War II. In the plot arrangement, the two previous employers were merged into one family, thus creating a coincidence that two deaths occurred on one day: the old man who died violently by paranoid fetish, and the...

    • By Juvenal 2023-03-21 19:38:23

      Buñuel's scheduling is really...

    • By Bartholome 2023-03-21 18:41:34

      1. Can't appreciate the charm of Buñuel; 2. The heroine's transformation is too fast and difficult to...

    Movie plot

    version one
    Xue Listin, a maid, finds a new job in the suburbs. Her employer, everyone in the Montais family is weird. Mrs. Monterey is a frigid woman, her husband is a hunter (animals and women) all day long, and the old Mr. Monterey is a fetishist. Zusif , who works on the farm, is a fascist and has an unruly desire for Xue Listin. Xerxestin finally could not bear to resign, but she stayed because a child was raped and murdered, and...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Céléstine: Are you from the priory?

      Joseph: Yes.

      Céléstine: Is it far?

      Joseph: You'll see.

    • Céléstine: It's strange, how the country always seems sad. - I guess, people don't have much fun here.