Diary of a Chambermaid (1964 film)
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Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le journal d'une femme de chambre, Italian: Il diario di una cameriera) is a 1964 drama film directed by Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Buñuel and starring Jeanne Moreau as a Parisian chambermaid who uses her body and wiles to navigate the perversion, corruption, and violence she encounters at the provincial estate where she goes to work. Though highly satirical and reflective of his typical anti-bourgeois sentiments, it is one of Buñuel's more realistic films, and generally avoids the outlandish surrealist imagery and far-fetched plot twists found in many of his other works. The film was the first screenwriting collaboration between Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, who extensively reworked the 1900 novel of the same name by Octave Mirbeau. Buñuel and Carrière would go on to collaborate on Belle de Jour (1967), The Milky Way (1969), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).
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Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
Written by | Luis Buñuel Jean-Claude Carrière |
Based on | The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau |
Produced by | Serge Silberman Michel Safra |
Starring | Jeanne Moreau Georges Géret Daniel Ivernel Françoise Lugagne Jean Ozenne Michel Piccoli |
Cinematography | Roger Fellous |
Edited by | Louisette Hautecoeur |
Production companies | Ciné-Alliance Filmsonor Spéva Films Dear Film |
Distributed by | Cocinor |
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Running time | 97 minutes 85 minutes (alternate French version) |
Countries | France Italy |
Languages | French Italian |