Diary of a Chambermaid

Release Date: Friday, June 10, 2016 Limited

Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Benoit Jacquot

N/A Drama 1 hr, 35 m

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Léa Sedoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Vincent Lindon). Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel’s version to Octave Mirbeau’s original 1900 novel, Benoît Jacquot has one eye on contemporary France: the sense of social stiflement, Célestine’s humiliating submission to Madame’s onerous terms of employment, Joseph’s virulent anti-Semitism. But the turn-of-the-century setting saw the rise of Freud ideas about the human unconscious and so Jacquot takes care to look past the characters’ outward behavior and appearance to the repression and compulsions that lie behind.
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1 hr, 35 m
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Diary of a Chambermaid was released in limited movie theaters on Friday, June 10, 2016 . There were 10 other movies released on the same date, including WarCraft, The Conjuring 2 and Now You See Me 2. As a limited release, Diary of a Chambermaid was shown in select movie theaters in major markets.



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