Léa Seydoux
Célestine
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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 ...
Synopsis. In Normandy at the end of the 19th century, a beautiful and ambitious young chambermaid named Célestine (Léa Seydoux) enters the service of her new employers, the Lanlaire family, which consists of a bitter wife and her perverted husband.
Jun 10, 2016 · But Benoît Jacquot shows no signs of intimidation in his “Diary of a Chambermaid,” which he and his co-scenarist, Hélène Zimmer, adapted from Octave Mirbeau’s anti-bourgeois novel of 1900. The book was adapted to the cinema in 1946 America, by the great French director Jean Renoir.
The Diary of a Chambermaid: Directed by Jean Renoir. With Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield, Francis Lederer. A chambermaid plots to climb the social ladder by marrying a wealthy man.
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- Drama, Romance
- Jean Renoir
- 1946-02-15
Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with her philandering employer (Buñuel regular Michel Piccoli).
- Celestine
Diary of a Chambermaid. 2015 · 1 hr 37 min. TV-14. Drama · Foreign/International. A woman assigned as a servant for a wealthy couple in 19th century France discovers a world of danger, prejudice, and risk in their social circles. Audio Languages: English. Starring: Léa Seydoux Vincent Lindon Clotilde Mollet Hervé Pierre Mélodie Valemberg.
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In 1930, Célestine, a 32-year-old chambermaid, takes a position at the Normandy estate of the Monteil family. She soon becomes well acquainted with the idiosyncrasies of the household. The elder Monteil is an affable, harmless boot-fetishist; his daughter is a sickly and frigid woman who conducts private "experiments" in her room instead of ...
