Seems less and less a product of the great Bunuel and more and more like an imitator.
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02/13/01
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:16
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Luis Bunuel became the second filmmaker, after Jean Renoir, to adapt Octave Mirbeau's novel about a social-climbing chambermaid, and the upper-class home in which she works. However, Bunuel has... [More]
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Geret, Jean-Claude Carriere
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Reviews for Diary of a Chambermaid
A very good film that should serve as good introduction to the one of the world's greatest filmmakers.
01/01/00
Sadly, the intervening decades seem to have weakened Mr. Bunuel's powers. His new adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's Diary of a Chambermaid suffers in comparison with the strange but memorable version Jean Renoir did with Paulette Goddard in 1946.
05/09/05
Top CriticThe Diary of a Chambermaid was a crucial turning point in Luis Buñuel’s career because it would officially usher in the French period of the director’s later years.
09/08/03
A fascinatingly bizarre minor work.
06/25/01
Buñuel's is a darkly acute view, occasionally relieved by sardonic Swiftian humor and forgiving only of the innocence of childhood.
01/01/00
The themes of obsessive desire, inhibitions imposed by society and ridicule of conventional bourgeois values dominate Buñuel's work, and Diary of a Chambermaid is no exception to that.
02/01/01
In the end, it's not the chambermaid's sellout that shocks us but the all-absorbing power of the bourgoisie (Bunuel's longtime enemy) against which it seems futile to revolt.
12/31/05
Diary of a Chambermaid is a piercing examination of the bourgeoisie and its obsessions. Buñuel shows us the horrifying actions and results with varying amounts of drama and humor like only he could.
03/07/06
Remarkably subtle and perceptive straightforward narrative on the rise of French fascism.
07/27/06
A wonderfully vulgar film from the masterful Spanish director Luis Bunuel, Diary of a Chambermaid is an adaptation in spirit of Octave Mirbeau's novel and Jean Renoir's 1946 film.
08/31/06
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01/26/06
Top CriticInteresting version of the story as slightly surreal poltiical tract by Bunuel.
08/27/03
A riveting, if not minor, Bunuelian masterwork.
09/14/03
Utterly stunning.
10/27/05
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08/22/03
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09/03/04
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