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Diary of a Chambermaid

Journal d'une femme de chambre

2015

Benoît Jacquot

Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre ...

5.3

229

Drama A scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Like its ravishing heroine, doomed to a long life of domestic subservience, this Chambermaid has its bodice strapped on a tad too tightly to please"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The classic novel of below-stairs power struggles has become a strangely directionless study of bourgeois desperation, despite a fine central performance from Léa Seydoux (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"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"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"While it’s the least vivid of the three versions, it arguably comes closest to matching the sauciness of the source (...) too breezy to convince in its depiction of obsessive erotic fixation"

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