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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. In the French countryside. Director Luis Buñuel (Viridiana) mounts a fascinating if inconclusive study of sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder as seen through the eyes of a worldly-wise Parisian maid (Jeanne Moreau...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Director Luis Bunuel (Viridiana) mitigates the imperfections of his corrosive satire with some artistry-and with Jeanne Moreau, who is cast as the Parisian servant girl in a rural landscape teeming with sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Director Luis Buňuel (Viridiana) mitigates the imperfections of his corrosive satire with some artistry-and with Jeanne Moreau, who is cast as the Parisian servant girl in a rural landscape teeming with sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder...
...this abrupt shift of mood, what began as a polished Gallic satire of bourgeois sex and morality suddenly becomes inflamed with black Spanish fury. Director Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana) is the powerful talent whose vision dominates this corrosive, meticulously detailed film based on the 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau. Buñuel resets the story in the 1920s and tips Mirbeau's well-aimed shafts with poison. But in the end, Diary seems inconclusive, a series of vivid sketches only partially held together by Buñuel's enlightened misanthropy...
...youth and comparative inexperience. Unfortunately, Sunday will play for only two more days, and I have only enough space to recommend it highly and urge you to force the Brattle into extending Sunday's run by the onslaught of your numbers. On the same bill is Luis Bunuel's Viridiana, which received a glowing review from Ivy Films...