Diary of a Chambermaid

Name: Diary of a Chambermaid
Genre: Drama
Released: June 10, 2016
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon

2016

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Cohen Media Group | Release Date: June 10, 2016 | Not Rated

Starring: Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon

Summary: Célestine (Léa Seydoux) is a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with herCélestine (Léa Seydoux) is a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Vincent Lindon).… Expand

Director: Benoît Jacquot

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jun 10, 2016

Taking on a novel that’s already been adapted by two of the greatest filmmakers of all time should give any contemporary director pause, you would think. But Benoît Jacquot shows no signs of intimidation in his Diary of a Chambermaid. Read full review

Rex Reed

Jun 16, 2016

Diary of a Chambermaid doesn’t quite add up to the chronicle of decadent abuse endured by the servant class in turn of the century France that it hopes to be, but it’s still worth seeing as another entry in the rise of Léa Seydoux, a star of Gallic charisma if ever I’ve seen one. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jun 9, 2016

Léa Seydoux, in all her haughty and sullen sexiness, dominates this well-crafted piece of suspenseful if curiously pointless hokum from French director Benoît Jacquot; it leads its audience up an elegantly tended garden path to nowhere in particular. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Jun 8, 2016

In spurts, it resembles an homage to classic French cinema and an overheated, Tinto Brass-esque Euro skin flick, but still finds plenty of room for stultifying, upstairs-downstairs costume drama. Read full review

The Film Stage Michael Snydel

Jun 15, 2016

Jacquot’s Diary of a Chambermaid ultimately feels beholden to art-house dictates, especially with an ending that’s less confounding than poorly articulated. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Jun 8, 2016

Star Léa Seydoux — in her second collaboration with Jacquot (the first being 2012's Farewell, My Queen, in which she plays an adoring reader to Marie Antoinette) — further demonstrates, with each sly, gap-toothed grin, a keen understanding of power and impotence. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Feb 19, 2015

Where Jacquot largely knows what he's doing on a micro-level within individual scenes, and the sets and costuming are pretty special, he seems unable to assemble the parts into a coherent, consistent whole. So the film meanders and hiccups. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Sep 7, 2017

I got to see pure period films at this point and this one is weak, not bad, perhaps its most failed point is the lack of connection between two of its stars.
But at least the work of the beautiful Leà Seydoux complies.

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