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"Diary of a Chambermaid"
1964
Directed by Luis Bunuel

A great Bunuel film in which he updated the famous Mirbeau novel  about the decadent French upper classes of the 19th century to 1928. Jeanne Moreau plays the chambermaid, both demure and cunning, who takes a position in a cheerless chateau, and immediately becomes the newest "object d'art" for a whole family of perfectly ordinary perverts, from the shoe-fetishist father to the gamekeeper, who is a reactionary and a rapist. French with English subtitles.
97 minutes.