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	Four Faces of a Chambermaid:
		The two chambermaids, played respectively by Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau at the peak of their careers, are about as different as one could possibly imagine; yet both can be seen to have originated in traits of the character created by Octave Mirbeau in his 1900 novel.
		There is nothing in Paulette Goddard's glamourous and warm-hearted chambermaid to suggest anything of the sort, nor is it easy to believe that she has ever been a servant before; she is definitely lady enough to marry the son of the household at the upbeat ending....
		Each of the four chambermaids is eager to escape from a social condition viewed from the perspective of the era in which the individual works were produced.
	people.vanderbilt.edu /~dan.m.church/chamber.htm (5322 words)

	‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ in Tribeca
		Lael Logan as Celestine in “Diary of a Chambermaid” at Walkerspace
		The sexual complaisance and amoral candor of Celestine, the chambermaid in question, were so shocking to the pecksniffs of the U.S. Postal Service in 1901 that the work was banned here, sight unseen, for obscenity.
		Much closer, in fact, to the entire thrust of “Diary of a Chambermaid” is Renoir’s own masterpiece, “Rules of the Game” (1939), which portrays a society of servants and masters, and of France itself, dancing on the edge of a volcano — a volcano named Hitler.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_64/diaryofachambermaid.html (894 words)

	The Chambermaid on the Titanic: Cinephiles Movie Review
		She persuades the shy Horty to let her stay in his room, explaining that she held a job as a chambermaid on the Titanic, and that she has no place to spend the night before her departure in the morning.
		The Chambermaid effectively uses this notion of storytelling and presents it as the most natural origin of the theatre.
		Parallel to Horty's monologues (of the increasingly exciting and suspenseful evolution of his stories), a series of images visualize his narration, creating a connection between Horty's audience at the bar and the spectators in the movie theatre.
	www.cinephiles.net /The_Chambermaid/Film-Synopsis.html (333 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
		Luis Buñuel is one of the most prominent film directors of the past century, and is considered by many to be the father of that vaguely artsy term of cinematic Surrealism.
		His body of work includes not only the 1964 release Diary of a Chambermaid, but Belle de jour (1967), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), which would turn out to be his final film.
		Filmed in Franscope in 1964, this DVD release of Diary of a Chambermaid was mastered from a newly-struck 35mm fine grain master positive, which was made from the film's original negative.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1575 (1315 words)

	Baroness Picpus's Chambermaid
		It would be enough for me to get to know her, to give her money, for her to think well of me, so that she would leave me keeping a place, a flattering place in her head.
		The Baroness had left; her chambermaid was still there and was leaving the next morning, but she was in bed, my man came back to tell me. I sent him back, he rang the bell again.
		He said he absolutely must go up and speak to the chambermaid on behalf of one of her cousins: after ten minutes he came back in a rage, telling us to leave immediately, that he had been insulted and threatened us with the police.
	www.yorktaylors.free-online.co.uk /picpus.htm (1766 words)

	Amazon.com: Diary of a Chambermaid: Video: Jeanne Moreau,Georges Géret,Daniel Ivernel,Françoise Lugagne,Muni,Jean ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The story is seen from the point of view of Celestine, a chambermaid of some sophistication (and an abiding, but understandable duplicity), a Parisian who has come to work for the family in the country.
		Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim), as the chambermaid, is a young woman coming from Paris and discovering what is like to live in the "deep" France of the early thirties.
		The Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel, 1964)
	www.amazon.com /Diary-Chambermaid-Jeanne-Moreau/dp/B00005B225 (2518 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| The Chambermaid
		The hero of The Chambermaid is the open-hearth worker Horty (Olivier Martinez, the dark, brooding star of The Horseman on the Roof).
		The Chambermaid examines the nature of romance--a fiction that's expanded in memory until it becomes a travesty of the truth.
		The Chambermaid on the Titanic) changed the title for fear of comparison with the great cinematic blockbuster, it is a smarter and far more elegant film.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.03.98/chambermaid-9835.html (606 words)

	Diary of a Chambermaid
		His Diary of a Chambermaid, a darkly droll work, has now been restored and re-released in a sparkling new print--surely not a commercially profitable undertaking, but one for which filmgoers have ample reason to be grateful.
		With views of towns and countryside seen from a moving train, Bunuel establishes behind the main titles the distance that Celestine (Jeanne Moreau in a perfectly modulated performance) travels from Paris to provincial Normandy where she is newly employed as a chambermaid in the home of a wealthy family.
		The latter are immediately noted as inappropriate by Joseph, the outspoken handyman for the estate, who picks her up at the train.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/DiaryofaChambermaid.htm (611 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Diary of a Chambermaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Buñuel's more modern version (the story is transplanted from the late-19th century to the late 1920s), Joseph (Georges Géret) kills not the next-door neighbor but rapes and murders a young girl on the Monteil estate.
		As for Moreau's Célestine, the chambermaid freely and passively indulges the whims of the film's elite because she too aims for a position at the top of the bourgeois food chain.
		Shot in glorious fl-and-white Franscope by cinematographer Roger Fellous, The Diary of a Chambermaid is a more unsettling mood piece: a startling evocation of a kingdom on the brink of moral collapse.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=801 (615 words)

	Diary of a Chambermaid
		Diary of a Chambermaid is a piercing examination of the bourgeoisie and its obsessions.
		The 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.
		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.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1005815-diary_of_a_chambermaid (735 words)

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	CSULB Online 49er: v10n110: Cal Rep’s ‘Chambermaid’ shows slow murder
		The script for “Diary of a Chambermaid” was taken from the text of a book written by Octave Mirbeau and is currently being presented by the California Repertory Company.
		The story is told from her point of view with a darkened stage, with the exception of a date in lights signifying the date in her diary, marks each scene change.
		The storyline begins to escalate as a neighboring little girl is found raped and murdered in the forest and Celestine begins to doubt the actions of a fellow servant, Joseph, who has also proclaimed his love for her.
	www.csulb.edu /~d49er/archives/2003/spring/diversions/v10n110-cal.shtml (336 words)

	Diary Of A Chambermaid Movie, Review, Cast for Diary Of A Chambermaid \| TVGuide.com
		Goddard is an enterprising young chambermaid who wants nothing more than to wed a rich man. As love would have it, a penniless valet becomes enamored of her.
		Although Renoir was known for his realism and deep-focus photography, this picture, done during the director's Hollywood years, reeks of s...
		There are no group posts for Diary Of A Chambermaid.
	www.tvguide.com /detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=112954 (183 words)

	More Legendary Romance on Titanic / `Chambermaid' looks at power of fantasies
		``The Chambermaid,'' which opens today at the Clay, is an honest film about a French foundry worker who wins the chance to go to Southampton, England, to see the launching of the Titanic in 1912.
		Nice guy that he is, he shares his room and his bed, but he's so flummoxed he doesn't have sex with her even though she's willing.
		``The Chambermaid'' is about a lot of things, but its premise is that a missed sexual opportunity lingers in the memory and haunts the imagination for longer than the half-life of uranium.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1998/09/04/DD40419.DTL (450 words)

	The Chambermaid \| The A.V. Club
		Until recently, J.J. Bigas Luna's The Chambermaid was called The Chambermaid On The Titanic, its title clipped presumably to sidestep comparison with the wildly successful James Cameron epic.
		But this clever, elegantly crafted melodrama is an ideal companion piece because it's about the appeal of storytelling on a grand scale—and, more specifically, the ship itself as the ultimate outsized metaphor for doomed romance.
		The Chambermaid has its share of perversions (though none on the scale of the genitalia-obsessed Jamón, Jamón), but Luna keeps his excesses in check with uncharacteristic restraint.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/872/print (234 words)

	Diary of a Chambermaid - Minnesota Daily
		Chambermaid shows another side to the director, which, unfortunately, is less than exciting.
		The film introduces an ensemble of quirky characters through the eyes of Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), a new Parisian maid hired to the bourgeois country estate of the Monteil family.
		Though the elements of a juicy and scandalous story seem to be in place, Bunuel appears to be out of his element directing a film with a rational narrative.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2001/07/20/22385 (535 words)

	Diary of a Chambermaid: review on TheaterMania.com
		In a 1900 work, issued when the French were knee-deep in the fragmenting Alfred Dreyfus scandal, Mirbeau claimed that he was merely editing a journal handed him by a chambermaid called Célestine R. The busy retainer recounted her exploits in various homes where her job description only began to outline the expectations put on her.
		Diary of a Chambermaid requires style and technique, two commodities that her actors lack in large measure; indeed, the phrase "don't have a clue" comes to mind.
		Towards the end of Diary of a Chambermaid, there's a sequence in which Célestine and the spoiled-rotten Monsieur Xavier are seen in shadow play, going at each other in a couple of bawdy sexual acts.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4965 (1138 words)

	Diary of a Chambermaid - Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was a worldview fraught with contradictions, defined by patience and scorn, peopled with pious sinners and debauched saints, visually Spartan and yet spasming with bouts of the irrational.
		Never commonly considered when Bunuel's masterworks are enumerated, Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) is a simple yet bottomless movie, and the least that could be said for it in its relaxed viciousness and breathtaking confidence is that it suggests there are many more masterpieces in the Bunuel hopechest than anyone has yet supposed.
		Set on a French manor during the uneasy 1930s but as timeless as neighbor hate and forgotten injustice, the film pivots on Bunuel's favorite subject: men twisted inside like rope by the tensions of their own absurd desires, and by their preposterous presumption that they're worthy of their own obscure objects.
	www.coldbacon.com /movies/diaryofachambermaid-essay.html (354 words)

	The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Plot Summary: Celestine, the chambermaid, has a new job in the country, at the Lanlaires.
		Rarely did a renowned film-maker make such a remarkable comeback after years of exile as Bunuel did with LOS OLVIDADOS (1950) and, even rarer still, did one director have such a sustained series of masterworks released towards the twilight of his career.
		Having said all this, however, I think that LE JOURNAL D'UNE FEMME DA CHAMBRE aka DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1964) is the weakest of the final ten feature films Bunuel made during the most fruitful period of his career (between 1961 and 1977) – if such a choice were to be made, that is.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0038477 (751 words)

	Diary of a Chambermaid
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Diary of a Chambermaid to receive a rating.
		Starring Paulette Goddard as the chambermaid Celestine, the film follows her from turn of the century Paris to her new position in the provincial household of the wealthy Lanlaire family.
		In what may herald a new wave of remakes of C. Thomas Howell movies, a 21st-century update on the 1986 late-night cable classic "The Hitcher" hits theaters this Janurary 19th.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1005814-diary_of_a_chambermaid (368 words)

	Etymology (Meaning of Words): Chambermaid
		The word 'chambermaid' has been in English usage for several centuries.
		It first surfaced in Great Britain at a time when upper class households had specialized servants who 'lived in' and had particular tasks.
		At that time a chambermaid, as today,referred to a maid who makes beds and does general cleaning of bedrooms and bathrooms in a home, hotel and, more recently, a motel.
	en.allexperts.com /q/Etymology-Meaning-Words-1474/Chambermaid.htm (232 words)

	Diary of a Chambermaid
		Cold, but not as alarmingly mechanical as Judith Anderson in Renoir's version, she is unable and unwilling to keep up with the lustful energy of her “robust” husband (and may in fact be concocting arguments to keep him at bay).
		The curé is at first taken aback by her problem but then embarks on a discussion of suitable styles of caress when the pair are interrupted by Celestine, the titular chambermaid, who cannot rouse Monsieur Rabour.
		The erotic appeal of the chambermaid derives from her continual presence but inexorable distance and unattainability.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/35/diary_chambermaid.html (1630 words)

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	The Criterion Collection: Diary of a Chambermaid
		Jeanne Moreau is Celestine, a beautiful Parisian domestic who, upon arrival at her new job at an estate in provincial 1930s France, entrenches herself in sexual hypocrisy and scandal with her philandering employer (Buñuel regular Michel Piccoli).
		Filmed in luxurious fl-and-white Franscope, Diary of a Chambermaid is a raw-edged tangle of fetishism and murder—and a scathing look at the burgeoning French fascism of the era.
		Diary of a Chambermaid is presented in its original Franscope aspect ratio of 2:35:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=117 (171 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Diary of a Chambermaid: The Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It's France in the 1930s, a place and time marked by growing nationalism, anti-foreigner protests, and, for the characters in the trenchant Diary of a Chambermaid, petty concerns, servant-master relations, sexual hypocrisy, lusty fetishes (one death involves choking on a woman's boot), bigotry, molestation, child-rape, and murder.
		It's here, employed as the titular chambermaid at the country estate of the eccentric Monteil family, that young and worldly Parisian Célestine (Jeanne Moreau) finds herself both an object of desire and, like director Luis Buñuel, an observer of a bourgeoisie class blind to its own growing decadence.
		This is the second screen adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel (Jean Renoir did it first in 1946).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/d/diaryofachambermaid_cc.q.shtml (370 words)

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	Fargrove - Chambermaid - DreamCatcher Forums
		I got the chambermaid quest from Lord Davenmore, and I went to talk to her.
		I then returned to talk to Lord Davenmore, and there are no dialog options - further, the Chambermaid quest still shows in the list, which leads me to believe that it wasn't completed.
		Talking to the chambermaid again gets a reply that she's very busy and can't talk.
	www.dreamcatchergames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=22392 (358 words)

	DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID previously at Film Forum in New York City
		DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID previously at Film Forum in New York City
		She taught me things about the character that I'd never suspected were there." - Buñuel.
		Atkinson's Review of DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID in The Village Voice.
	www.filmforum.org /archivedfilms/diary.html (168 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - Diary of a Chambermaid
		Pantheon director Luis Bunuel's risque, overtly political adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's racy novel and Jean Renoir's 1946 film.
		Utilizing the diary of sexy chambermaid Celestine (Jeanne Moreau), Bunuel's version--set in the 1930s--clearly links sexual and political aggression, further connecting the two to the rise of fascism.
		Extraordinary visuals and the director's trademark wicked humor are utilized to tell the story of Celestine's misadventures as a servant on the country estate of a bourgeois womanizer (Michel Piccoli) and his frigid wife (Francoise Lugagne).
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=58377-1-1 (129 words)

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