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Diary of a Chambermaid
Directed by
Benoît Jacquot
Not Rated
2015
1h 36m
Drama
5.5
66%
26%
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A scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century.
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Cast of Diary of a Chambermaid
Léa Seydoux
Célestine
Vincent Lindon
Joseph
Clotilde Mollet
Madame Lanlaire
Hervé Pierre
Monsieur Lanlaire
Mélodie Valemberg
Marianne
Patrick d'Assumçao
Le capitaine
Vincent Lacoste
Georges
Joséphine Derenne
La grand-mère de Georges
Dominique Reymond
La placeuse
Rosette
Rose
Adriana Asti
Elvira Parsi, la maquerelle
Aurélia Petit
La maîtresse (train)
Jean-Louis Croquet
Le maître (train)
Alain Eloy
Le douanier
Yvette Petit
Madame Gouin, la mercière
Maud Wyler
La jeune bourgeoise
Diary of a Chambermaid Ratings & Reviews
Observer
Rex Reed
Worth seeing as another entry in the rise of Léa Seydoux, a star of Gallic charisma if ever I've seen one.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Jacquot makes a persuasive case for a return to the story, with a scowling, watchful Léa Seydoux in the role of a scheming chambermaid.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
The immediate effect Jacquot achieves, with quiet droll and some considerable dread, is bracing.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
It touches on the novel's pessimism, decadence, and politics only in brief, fervid moments.
Dare Daniel
Daniel Barnes
No actress is more primed to seethe fire than Seydoux, but she's largely double-crossed by Jacquot's jittery self-indulgence.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Jacquot's diffuse and unmotivated film will be remembered as nothing more than an extraordinary monument to La Seydoux's ferocious side-eye.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The lack of ambiguity reflects Benot Jacquot's treatment of the text, which is devoid of either formal obsessiveness or a contemporary hook.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
Even without two other versions, this 'Chambermaid,' good as it sometimes looks, would be struggling for air; with them, it is all but pointless except to Lea Seydoux completists, and fans of the daintily perched hat.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Unfolding elliptically, the new film can feel abrupt and unsatisfying, but it's filled with sharp commentary on class and servitude, and [Seydoux] delivers another extraordinary performance.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Rather than gain speed and power in its final act, as Joseph's design comes into play, the movie stalls.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Has serious narrative glitches and a shaky timeline, but at least it is true to the bitterly misanthropic spirit of Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel about masters and servants.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Jacquot and Helene Zimmer's loose adaptation of the novel acidly critiques the social rigidities of turn-of-the-century Europe, but actually mollifies the acrid irony of Mirbeau's own conclusion.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
Starts off promisingly with its various jibes at upper-class hypocrisy, before fizzling out in a third act that lacks the necessary emotional flair.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Clestine and Joseph never make logical confederates, a result of the sodden chemistry between Seydoux and Lindon. Their scheming to leave the Lanlaires for good merely hastens the movie's too-abrupt ending ...
Slant Magazine
Oleg Ivanov
Celestine's eventual submission to this evil and violent man becomes an eloquent indictment of a nation's anti-Semitism.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
...it all unfolds against a lush and stunning backdrop.
Brooklyn Magazine
Elina Alter
quick and vicious
The Film Stage
Michael Snydel
For a film that's ostensibly about passion, it feels particularly stunted.
Film Journal International
Chris Barsanti
Shifting from class satire to sex farce to stark historical warning with a surrealist's stinging alacrity.
SF Weekly
Jeffrey Edalatpour
Buñuel's wit may be absent, but Seydoux's emotional fireworks are compensatory.
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