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While superficially one of Buñuel's most lucid and orderly works, Diary Of A Chambermaid is regardlessly one of his most beguiling, inexplicable, and unsettling pictures, containing some of his most indelible and erotically-charged imagery––the snails slithering over Claire's corpse; Jeanne Moreau's lovely legs, footwear, and maid's uniform––amidst a tapestry of pastoral repression.

Art Vandelay

23Apr12

The film is concurrently grim and mordant, like all of Buñuel's masterworks.

Răpciune

31Dec11

i live in a country were the lefts killed millions and have vigilantly kept an open-air all-national prison for 50 years , but it matters little for art.. if the right can get the worse out of people, then why do we still need psychiatrists? the self-liberating experiments of the sixties should have known that mein kampf is better for individual exorcism than screaming. thr film is nice , but it needs a sequel,

Răpciune

31Dec11

detailing the eventual consequences of both types of extremism, right and left, that mutilated recent history.

Colton Bose

2Oct11

There are very few films that I have ever seen that have such a strong subtext of sensuality as to inspire genuine arousal, and very few still that are as perfectly executed, as this gem of a masterpiece. As Criterion so perfectly states, it's "classic Buñuel".

Publius

3Feb11

I am almost inclined to say this is my favourite Bunuel.

Colton Bose

10Jan12

Seconded.

KiNo

17Nov10

The finest way of attuning the tidal blur between good and evil and ambiguity, pure poetry of ambiguity of motives. The genius of Bunuel is a magnifier looking into the society of bourgeois and the fooled people by nationalism.

lachim

4Oct10

What a great movie!

dBainy

2Feb10

This is a sad sad sad movie. Some truths are better shunned and ignored than embraced. If you embrace them, they will break your heart.

Smooth_J

25Jan10

Thematically laying somewhere between Belle de Jour & Viridiana, Diary of a Chambermaid is probably one of Bunuel's most effective attacks on the hypocrisy and decadence of the bourgeoisie. By likening their rituals to those of the emerging fascist party in France, he compells the viewer to despise the "coming storm" of fascism as much as he does. Diary is another scintillating work by a great cinema provocateur.

Daniel S.

10Jan10

***1/2. Jeanne Moreau surrounded by fetishists, snails on a young girl's leg, caustic criticism of the French bourgeoisie, a ride through Luis Buñuel's obsessions. Recommended.

Christopher Smith

19Oct09

Luis Bunuel's uncomfortable, subtle comedy is sexually-charged and mostly engaging. As intriguing as the characters are, and as complex as are their relationships, the tension is slight, which makes it drag in places and never quite reach its potential dramatic or comedic heights. Still, an interesting piece of work.