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Le Journal d'une femme le chambre
aka Diary of a Chambermaid
Screening: Monday 3 April, 6:30pm
France/Italy
1964
Director/Screenplay: Luis Buñuel
Production co: Spva Films, Cin-Alliance, Filmsonor, Dear Film
Producers: Serge Silberman, Michel Safra
Screenplay: Luis Buuel, Jean-Claude Carrire. Based on the novel by Octave Mirbeau
Cinematography: Roger Fellous
Editor: Louisette Hautecoeur
Production designer: Georges Wakhvitch
Sound: Antoine Petitjean
Clestine: Jeanne Moreau
Joseph: Georges Gret
M Monteil: Michel Piccoli
Mme Monteil: Franois Lugagne
Captain Mauger: Daniel Invernel
M Rabour: Jean Ozenne
Marianne: Muni
(br>In French with English subtitles
98 mins
B & W
16mm (2.35:1)
R13 cert
ADMISSION STRICTLY MEMBERS ONLY
Moreau as the beautiful, ambitious Cèlestine makes it from Downstairs to Upstairs by manipulating her right-wing boss (Piccoli), his leftish neighbour (Ivernel), and his fascist gamekeeper (Gèret). Octave Mirbeau's muckraking 1900 novel has abiding insight into the deep structures of French political instability. Buñuel shifts the story to the rise of Fascism in the '30s. He digs right down to that spiritual gunge which links political, sexual and social positions (and impositions) as equal perversions of human desires (in turn perversions of animal desires). - Raymond Durgnat, Time Out Film Guide
Openly, serenely delighted with how our own dreams can appall us, and how close movies are to that appalling dreaminess, Luis Buñuel may have been the greatest filmmaker of the first century. Certainly, among the 10 or 12 unassailable masters of the medium, he is the wittiest, the least sentimental, the most philosophically imaginative, and formally the most unceremonious. - Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
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