Diary of a Chambermaid
- Comedy
- Drama
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
- Directed by
- Luis Buñuel
- Written by
- Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
- Based on
- Octave Mirbeau
Cast
- Jeanne Moreau
- Georges Géret
- Michel Piccoli
- Françoise Lugagne
- Jean Ozenne
- Daniel Ivernel
- Bernard Musson
- Gilberte Géniat
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Muni
- Claude Jaeger
- Madeleine Damien
Keywords
- sadism
- based on novel or book
- soldier
- marriage
- pedophilia
- murder
- antisemitism
- class differences
- society
- racism
- sexuality
- suspicion
- military veteran
- rape
- catholicism
- france
- fascist
- gardener
- fetishism
- frigidity
- sexual repression
- sexless marriage
- bigotry
- unhappy marriage
- clergyman
- neighbor feud
- clergy
- bourgeoisie
- provincial life
- chambermaid
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