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Diary Of A Chambermaid
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Léa Seydoux foIIows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as CéIestine, a resentfuI young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiIed to a position in the provinces where she immediateIy chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde MoIIet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Vincent Lindon). Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel's version to Octave Mirbeau's original 1900 noveI, Benoît Jacquot has one eye on contemporary France: the sense of social stifIement, Célestine's humiliating submission to Madame's onerous terms of empIoyment, Joseph's viruIent anti-Semitism. But the turn-of-the-century setting saw the rise of Freudian ideas about the human unconscious and so Jacquot takes care to Iook past the characters' outward behavior and appearance to the repression and compulsions that Iie behind. |
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