Journal d'une femme de chambre, Le (1964)

Regisseur:

Luis Buñuel

Drehbuchautoren:

Luis Buñuel (writer)
Jean-Claude Carrière (writer)

Premierendatum:

9. März 1965 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Celestine, the chambermaid has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people...

Plot Keywords:

Geese | Normandy France | Family Relationship | Intimidation | Grim

Filmpreise:

1 win

Nutzerkommentare:

Finally a Bunuel film I can make sense of! Oh, nevermind.

Besetzung

Jeanne Moreau	...	Céléstine
Georges Géret	...	Joseph
Daniel Ivernel	...	Captain Mauger
Françoise Lugagne	...	Madame Monteil
Muni	...	Marianne
Jean Ozenne	...	Monsieur Rabour
Michel Piccoli	...	Monsieur Monteil
Joëlle Bernard
Françoise Bertin
Aline Bertrand
Pierre Collet
Michel Dacquid
Madeleine Damien
Marc Eyraud	...	Le secrétaire du commissaire
Jean Franval

Alternativ:

Diario di una cameriera, Il (Italy)
Diary of a Chambermaid (USA)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (UK)
Tagebuch einer Kammerzofe (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

101 Min | Argentina:97 Min | France:97 Min | Brazil:94 Min

Produktionsland:

France | Italy

Sprache:

Französisch

Farbe:

Schwarzweiss

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Ireland:12 (DVD rating) | UK:12 (video rating) (2001) | UK:15 (video rating) (1993) | UK:AA (original rating) (1981) | West Germany:12 (w)

Drehorte:

Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France

Firma:

Ciné-Alliance

Dies und das:

The demonstrating fascists shout "Vive Chiappe", a homage to the chief of the Parisian police who prohibited showing director Luis Buñuel's earlier film Âge d'or, L' (1930) after fascists destroyed the cinema where it was being shown.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in Chappaqua (1966)

Finally a Bunuel film I can make sense of! Oh, nevermind.

This is the most straight-forward film I've seen by the surrealist master Bunuel, and despite its cryptic turn in the final moments, is funny, chilling, and a bit nasty. The story follows an urbane chambermaid from Paris who comes to work at the country estate of a repressed bourgeosie family. She weathers passes from every man in sight and deflects them, but for morally ambiguous reasons. Moral ambiguity is rampant, as it is so often in Bunuel's films, and spread liberally amongst all classes. It's subtly a film about selling out, except that nobody seemed to have any principles to begin with. Good fun. Now tell me what the ending was all about.