Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
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The bridling wrath of the underclass that we find in Italian neorealism—“I curse the day I was born,” is the hero’s cry in “ Bicycle Thieves ” (1948)—is wholly absent, and there’s not a whisper of the anarchistic mischief practiced by Buñuel in “ Diary of a Chambermaid ” (1964), in which the aging patriarch kneels down to unfasten the boots of a bored underling.