Diary of a Chambermaid (1964 film)

Diary of a Chambermaid French Le journal dune femme de chambre , Italian Il diario di una cameriera is a 1964 drama film. It is one of several French films made by Spanishborn filmmaker Luis Buuel but lacks the surrealist imagery and plot twists of his other films. It stars Jeanne Moreau as a chambermaid who uses her feminine charms to control and advance her situation, in a social setting of corruption, violence, sexual obsession and perversion.

A stylish, attractive young woman, Clestine Jeanne Moreau, arrives from Paris to become chambermaid for an odd family at their country chateau. The period is mid1930s, and the populace is astir with extremist politics, right and left. The Monteils household consists of a childless couple, the frigid wifes elderly, genteel father, and several servants, including Joseph the groom Georges Gret whos a rightist, nationalist, antiSemitic, violent man. The wife Franoise Lugagne runs a rigidly tidy house she would like to please her virile husband physically, but cannot, due to pelvic pain. M. Monteil Michel Piccoli amuses himself by hunting small game and pursuing all the females within range the previous chambermaid seems to have left pregnant and had to be bought off.The wifes father amuses himself with his collection of racy postcards and novels, and a closet full of womens shoes and boots, that he likes his chambermaids to model. Their nextdoor neighbor Daniel Ivernel is a burly, retired Army officer, with a chubby maidmistress Gilberte Gniat, and a violent streak of his own he likes to throw refuse and stones over the fence, to the great annoyance of M. Monteil. Clestine almost immediately finds her role in the house completely defined by the sexual proclivities of the other characters, and she proceeds to use her own considerable sexual assets to accomplish her goals. ........

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