The Diary of a Chambermaid with Jeanne Moreau: DVD Cover

    The Diary of a Chambermaid
    a.k.a. Il Diario di una Cameriera, Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre Director: Luis Buñuel Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret, Francoise Lugagne

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/05/2001
    • Original Release: 1964
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 5,227

    Viewer Rating: (1 ratings)

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    Features

    Video interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière; printed interview with Luis Buñuel about Diary of a Chambermaid; original theatrical trailer; new, improved subtitles

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    Scene Index

    Side #1
    0. Chapters
    1. Opening credits [:39]
    2. Célestine [2:27]
    3. Old Rabour and Monsieur Monteil [2:40]
    4. Instructing the chambermaid [1:19]
    5. Gossip [1:36]
    6. Le monsieur [1:29]
    7. Joseph [1:58]
    8. "At your service" [2:27]
    9. The neighbors [4:30]
    10. "L'amour fou" [3:01]
    11. Undermining Célestine [1:52]
    12. Anti-Semitism [2:04]
    13. Trouble with the chambermaid [4:00]
    14. Rebellious intents [2:31]
    15. Rabour's fetish [5:11]
    16. The informant [4:59]
    17. Spiritual advice [:00]
    18. A man and his shoes [1:47]
    19. A wolf in the woods [3:21]
    20. Claire is found [1:20]
    21. Suspecting Joseph [2:39]
    22. The Captain vs. Monteil [4:25]
    23. Anything for Claire [3:14]
    24. Desire denied [6:20]
    25. The Captain advances [3:48]
    26. A dream for the future [1:55]
    27. Engaged [4:21]
    28. Rendezvous [5:27]
    29. Planting evidence [2:35]
    30. Célestine weds [1:57]
    31. Mistress of her own house [6:05]
    32. "Vive Chiappe" [1:45]
    0. Index

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    Editorial Reviews

    The second screen version of Octave Mirbeau's novel (originally filmed in 1946 by Jean Renoir), Diary of a Chambermaid charts the ambitions of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a woman who comes to work in the 1930s for a Normandy estate occupied by Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter (Francoise Lugagne), and the daughter's husband, Monsieur Montiel (Michel Piccoli). Celestine quickly learns that M. Rabour is a more or less harmless boot fetishist, his daughter a frigid woman more concerned with the family furnishings than in returning the affections of her husband, who, in turn, can't keep his hands off the servants. The gamekeeper, Joseph (Georges Geret), is a fascist who keeps his masters informed of all the doings downstairs, and the next-door neighbor (Daniel Ivernel) is a veteran who can't stand Monteil and is sharing a bed with his housekeeper. Celestine picks her way through this minefield carefully, spurning the advances of all of the men until it's convenient for her. Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide

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    Diary of a Chambermaidby miriamchiss

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    August 01, 2009: Great movie if you like love triangles, mystery , people with weird fetishes, dysfunctional family drama, unsettling endings, and above all black & white french cinema.

    I Also Recommend: El Suplicio de Una Madre, Now, Voyager, The Lovers.