Diary of a Chambermaid (1964 film)

Diary of a Chambermaid
Theatrical re-release poster
French	Le journal d'une femme de chambre
Directed by	Luis Buñuel
Written by	Luis Buñuel Jean-Claude Carrière[1]
Based on	The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau
Produced by	Serge Silberman Michel Safra
Starring	Jeanne Moreau Georges Géret Daniel Ivernel Françoise Lugagne Jean Ozenne Michel Piccoli
Cinematography	Roger Fellous
Edited by	Louisette Hautecoeur
Production companies	Ciné-Alliance Filmsonor Spéva Films Dear Film
Distributed by	Cocinor
Release dates	4 March 1964 (1964-03-04) (France) 16 September 1964 (1964-09-16) (Italy)
Running time	97 minutes 85 minutes (alternate French version)
Countries	France Italy
Languages	French Italian
Box office	$19,607[2]

Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le journal d'une femme de chambre, Italian: Il diario di una cameriera) is a 1964 drama film directed by Spanish-born filmmaker Luis Buñuel and starring Jeanne Moreau as a Parisian chambermaid who uses her body and wiles to navigate the perversion, corruption, and violence she encounters at the provincial estate where she goes to work. Though highly satirical and reflective of his typical anti-bourgeois sentiments, it is one of Buñuel's more realistic films, and generally avoids the outlandish surrealist imagery and far-fetched plot twists found in many of his other works. The film was the first screenwriting collaboration between Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, who extensively reworked the 1900 novel of the same name by Octave Mirbeau. Buñuel and Carrière would go on to collaborate on Belle de Jour (1967), The Milky Way (1969), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974) and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).