Synopsis
Diary of a Chambermaid (2015) is a French drama starring Léa Seydoux that you can watch online on iFILM. Célestine is a Paris maid tired of being something the men of the house can't keep their eyes off.
She leaves the capital for a provincial estate, the Lanlaire household, and finds the air there stifling. The mistress is domineering and counts every centime; her husband chases anything in a skirt; Célestine herself never stops feeling like an outsider. Slowly she's drawn to Joseph, the silent gardener — a grim, coarse man with something dangerous and magnetic under the surface.
Benoît Jacquot brings Octave Mirbeau's novel back to the screen, and after the celebrated takes by Jean Renoir and Luis Buñuel he offers a cooler, more clinical reading of late-19th-century class resentment. Léa Seydoux plays the maid sharp and unsentimental. Restrained costume drama for anyone who loves French auteur cinema. Stream Diary of a Chambermaid online on iFILM.
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