The Diary of a Chambermaid

Category: Movies •

Genre: Drama • Comedy •

Rating: 0

Director: Radu Jude,

Writer: Radu Jude (Screenplay), Octave Mirbeau (Novel),

Cast: Ana Dumitrașcu, Marie Rivière, Louen Bouteiller, Arnaud Baudoin, Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Macaigne, Ilinca Manolache, Sofia Dragoman, Liliana Ghiță, Kahina Mounier, Doralice Aberrane, Louve Proust, Prince Longo, Samuel Ame, François Briault, Olivier Galinou, Jürgen Genuit, Amélie Prévot, Lili Guillonneau, Emilie Vaudou, Anastasia Coltatu, Ulysse Nzimenya, Erik Saib,

Language: fr

Country: Romania

Release Date: October 23, 2026

Plot: Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.