Diary Of A Chambermaid
Luis Bunuel, Director
1964 | 98 min | Feature
Late in his long career, the great Spanish filmmaker and surrealist Luis Bunuel made six features in France that remain among his finest work. The first was this updated adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's celebrated novel examining the foibles and hypocrisy of the landed gentry as seen through the eyes of a newly installed chambermaid (Jeanne Moreau). With frequent screenwriting collaborator Jean-Claude Carriere, Bunuel revels in comically depicting the grotesque and perverse aspects of bourgeois life and daily existence on a rural country estate.
