Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

Gorgeous.  There are no bad movies in Buñuel’s filmography.  The Kino blu is superb.

carrieandtracy

A concept album in which all characters are destroyed in an extremely exhausting way. Bourgeoisie bashing, the exposure of the petty petite upper middle class as an unsightly rabble with monstrous flaws, the civilized society and the repression of instincts. As sober and…

shookone

this was different. it wasn’t the usual overtly surreal Buñuel film that i’m used to, but i liked it. there was definitely more of a real driving force of a thought process behind this film, an anger, frustration within the mind of its author. he had clearly meant very…

spap1

Devoid of the surrealist elements typically found in Buñuel, opting instead for a sense of heightened realism in the form of a direct attack aimed straight at the bourgeois French ruling class; Diary of a Chambermaid is the story of a Parisian domestic worker named…

Jerry

Luis Buñuel crafting a period piece adaptation of sorts but set against the moral rot of 1930s France; but that’s also a front for a seething rebuke of the hypocrisies and corruption inherent to the bourgeoisie. Jeanne Moreau’s performance is as outstanding as one could…

Sam Jalali

Jeanne Moreau: actor, thespian, wife, mother, Parisian minx, chambermaid and investigator of child murder. A real all-rounder.

Graham

Buñuel can’t keep his hands to himself when it comes to poking fun at the bourgeois. The Diary of a Chambermaid, the second main adaptation of the novel of the same name, is as Buñuelesque as you expect it to be, populated with eccentric rich people, political tension, shoe…

sirrah993

[previous review] Speculative possible spoilers in the last paragraph, I guess. Jeanne Moreau and her character, Célestine, exert a tremendous gravitational pull in Diary of a Chambermaid, both over the characters around Célestine, and on the film itself. Men find…

sakana1

it’s all fun and games until buñuel whips out the snail shot

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