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Diary Of A Chambermaid
The movie follows a beautiful French woman as she accepts a post in the country with a family that relishes its power over her. There, she also makes the acquaintance of the family's mysterious gardener, and becomes fascinated by him.
12 February 1957, Geneva, Switzerland
15 July 1959, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
6 September 1959, Cherbourg, Manche, France
3 July 1993, Paris, France
1 July 1985, Paris, France
30 April 1931, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
June 24, 2016
A bracingly nasty piece of work, contrasting brutishness at the bottom and condescension from the top.June 15, 2016
Jacquot makes a persuasive case for a return to the story, with a scowling, watchful Lea Seydoux in the role of a scheming chambermaid.June 09, 2016
Rather than gain speed and power in its final act, as Joseph's design comes into play, the movie stalls.June 15, 2016
Jacquot expertly combines the mores of the 1900 novel and the mid-20th Century films with today's world and the result is a thought-provoking film that leaves the viewer contemplating what they have just seen. Seydoux is outstanding.January 01, 2017
It's one of the bitterest dramas of Seydoux's less-than-saccharine career.June 16, 2016
Few films have the power to manipulate, engage, play and discombobulate the audience this well.June 15, 2016
Worth seeing as another entry in the rise of Léa Seydoux, a star of Gallic charisma if ever I've seen one.June 29, 2016
Diary of a Chambermaid would make a decent first act to a television miniseries. As a film, it ends in an unfortunate whimper.June 09, 2016
[It's] engaging and visually stylish but loses momentum towards its end.June 09, 2016
Unfolding elliptically, the new film can feel abrupt and unsatisfying, but it's filled with sharp commentary on class and servitude, and [Seydoux] delivers another extraordinary performance.June 10, 2016
For a film that's ostensibly about passion, it feels particularly stunted.June 10, 2016
The immediate effect Jacquot achieves, with quiet droll and some considerable dread, is bracing.