A wonderfully vulgar film from the masterful Spanish director Luis Bunuel, Diary of a Chambermaid is an adaptation in spirit of Octave Mirbeau's novel and Jean Renoir's 1946 film.
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08/31/06
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
85 %
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Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 17
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 8.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Geret, Jean-Claude Carriere
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Reviews for Diary of a Chambermaid
Top Critic Remarkably subtle and perceptive straightforward narrative on the rise of French fascism.
07/27/06
Diary of a Chambermaid is a piercing examination of the bourgeoisie and its obsessions. Buñuel shows us the horrifying actions and results with varying amounts of drama and humor like only he could.
03/07/06
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01/26/06
Top Critic In the end, it's not the chambermaid's sellout that shocks us but the all-absorbing power of the bourgoisie (Bunuel's longtime enemy) against which it seems futile to revolt.
12/31/05
Sadly, the intervening decades seem to have weakened Mr. Bunuel's powers. His new adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's Diary of a Chambermaid suffers in comparison with the strange but memorable version Jean Renoir did with Paulette Goddard in 1946.
05/09/05
Top Critic
The Diary of a Chambermaid was a crucial turning point in Luis Buñuel’s career because it would officially usher in the French period of the director’s later years.
09/08/03
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05/13/01
Top Critic Seems less and less a product of the great Bunuel and more and more like an imitator.
02/13/01
The themes of obsessive desire, inhibitions imposed by society and ridicule of conventional bourgeois values dominate Buñuel's work, and Diary of a Chambermaid is no exception to that.
02/01/01
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