Diary of a Chambermaid
Starring Léa Seydoux as a rebellious servant
Léa Seydoux, who played the blue-haired art student in the sizzling lesbian romance, Blue Is the Warmest Color, takes on the role of Célestine, the scheming and irrepressible servant in Diary of a Chambermaid, a beautiful young woman who has been assigned to a country estate where the Madame is a tyrant and virtually all the men who surround her vie for her affections. Based on the 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau, Diary of a Chambermaid has been memorably filmed twice before: by Luis Buñuel in 1964, with Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, and by Jean Renoir in 1946, while he was working in Hollywood, with Paulette Goddard. This lush new French version, directed by Benoit Jacquot and released in June, is a dazzling period production that goes back to the source novel for inspiration.
