Legendary screenwriter collaborated with scores of filmmakers including Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, Milos Foreman and Louis Malle.
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, whose 60-year career spanned more than 150 writer credits and collaborations with Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, Milos Foreman and Louis Malle, has died in Paris aged 89.
Born into a family of winegrowers in south-western France, Carrière moved to the outskirts of Paris at the age of 14 when his parents took over the running of a bar.
After obtaining a degree in history and literature, he embarked on a writing career, publishing debut novel Lezard in 1957. Set against the backdrop of a restaurant in the suburbs,...
French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, whose 60-year career spanned more than 150 writer credits and collaborations with Jacques Tati, Luis Buñuel, Milos Foreman and Louis Malle, has died in Paris aged 89.
Born into a family of winegrowers in south-western France, Carrière moved to the outskirts of Paris at the age of 14 when his parents took over the running of a bar.
After obtaining a degree in history and literature, he embarked on a writing career, publishing debut novel Lezard in 1957. Set against the backdrop of a restaurant in the suburbs,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Winner of Locarno’s Signs of Life section, Benjamin Crotty’s “The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin” has enjoyed more than 12 months of festival success and critical acclaim as it reaches the end of its festival run at UniFrance’s MyFrenchFilmFestival.
A modern take on one of France’s most influential yet widely unknown characters, the film headlines Nicolas Chauvin, a farmer-turned-soldier in Napoleon’s First Army of the French Republic. Although some sources claim the 17-times injured in defense of France Chauvin was a real person, it’s now commonly accepted that he was an invention meant to represent nationalistic values prominent among soldiers at the time. Today he is best recognized as the namesake of chauvinism, and seen as a cautionary character regarding the dangers of nationalism, sexism, racism and other extreme points of view.
In just over a decade of filmmaking, Crotty has twice been awarded at...
A modern take on one of France’s most influential yet widely unknown characters, the film headlines Nicolas Chauvin, a farmer-turned-soldier in Napoleon’s First Army of the French Republic. Although some sources claim the 17-times injured in defense of France Chauvin was a real person, it’s now commonly accepted that he was an invention meant to represent nationalistic values prominent among soldiers at the time. Today he is best recognized as the namesake of chauvinism, and seen as a cautionary character regarding the dangers of nationalism, sexism, racism and other extreme points of view.
In just over a decade of filmmaking, Crotty has twice been awarded at...
- 1/18/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Obscure Objects of Desire: The Films of Luis Buñuel is showing March 12 – May 23, 2019 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.“Luis was a jealous macho. His wife had to be a kind-of child woman who had not matured,” said Jeanne Rucar, Luis Buñuel’s wife, summing up their marriage. Rucar’s personal note has surprising bearing on the director’s oeuvre. Vicious, dreamlike, sly, witty, deviant—Buñuel the artist was all those things. Besides colorful tales of his petit bourgeois upbringing and his ascetic adult life, what truly fascinates is his surrealism. Buñuel left Spain for Paris five years before Un chien andalou (1929), and the French Surrealists embraced his work (even thought he claimed not to know about them while conceiving his debut). L'âge d'or (1930), his second collaboration with Salvador Dalí, followed, to critical acclaim.What does this have to do with women? In her book on abstract expressionist art in New York,...
- 3/24/2019
- MUBI
Four late films by Luis Buñuel are showing from February 22 - March 28, 2018 in the United States in the retrospective Buñuel.“Chance governs all things.”—Luis Buñuel, My Last SighStriving for the surprising has always been a prevailing part of Luis Buñuel’s aesthetic practice. At first, this endeavor manifest itself in overtly incongruous visual terms, with the succession of shocking and often inexplicable images that dominate his earliest efforts, namely Un chien andalou (1929) and L'âge d'or (1930). After these two surrealist masterworks, though, both of which Buñuel made in collaboration with the movement’s eminent enforcer, Salvador Dalí, the director’s output went in a decidedly more systematic direction. The films Buñuel made in Mexico, twenty of them from the late 1940s into the early 1960s, could at times be just as provocative as anything else filling his filmography, but their formal and tonal constitution was comparatively tame and, dare one say it regarding Buñuel,...
- 2/21/2018
- MUBI
Conceived at the dawn of the 20th century and shaped by the outburst of influences during that transitional period, Octave Mirbeau’s novel…
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- 6/14/2016
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
About halfway through both Jean Renoir’s and Luis Buñuel’s interpretations of Octave Mirbeau’s 1900 class satire, A Diary of A Chambermaid, there’s a scene where Joseph – the sociopathic valet – proclaims his obsession with Célestine. “We may be different on the surface, but we’re the same underneath,” Joseph slithers out as he grabs her.
For Buñuel, it’s the emergence of a pattern of wanton perversion, a moment that showcases the director’s personal fondness for abrasion, while also blurring his intentions with Célestine. For Renoir, it’s the Hollywood introduction of a sinister villain, a possessive sadist who covets Celestine for her perceived impurity. But in Benoît Jacquot’s psychologically sublimated adaptation, the scene never comes.
Joseph (Vincent Lindon) isn’t the hunter, he’s the prey, and as much as Célestine talks about being tangled in his lurid magnetism, she’s fully in control of both of their fates.
For Buñuel, it’s the emergence of a pattern of wanton perversion, a moment that showcases the director’s personal fondness for abrasion, while also blurring his intentions with Célestine. For Renoir, it’s the Hollywood introduction of a sinister villain, a possessive sadist who covets Celestine for her perceived impurity. But in Benoît Jacquot’s psychologically sublimated adaptation, the scene never comes.
Joseph (Vincent Lindon) isn’t the hunter, he’s the prey, and as much as Célestine talks about being tangled in his lurid magnetism, she’s fully in control of both of their fates.
- 6/10/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Benoît Jacquot: 'For me, there is something very specific with Vincent Lindon' Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Having just completed À Jamais, based on Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, starring Mathieu Amalric and Jeanne Balibar with costumes by Raf Simons (Dior And I), Benoît Jacquot joined me in New York for a conversation on his penetrating Diary Of A Chambermaid (Journal d'Une Femme De Chambre), co-written with Hélène Zimmer and starring Léa Seydoux.
Vincent Lindon heads a formidable supporting cast that includes Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Yvette Petit, Dominique Reymond, Mélodie Valemberg, Patrick d'Assumçao, Joséphine Derenne, Rosette and Vincent Lacoste. Costume designer Anaïs Romand, also known for Farewell My Queen, Léos Carax's Holy Motors and Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, captures the period with precision and grace.
Jacquot's adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel, focuses on the myriad ways female bodies were treated as commodities, as...
Vincent Lindon heads a formidable supporting cast that includes Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Yvette Petit, Dominique Reymond, Mélodie Valemberg, Patrick d'Assumçao, Joséphine Derenne, Rosette and Vincent Lacoste. Costume designer Anaïs Romand, also known for Farewell My Queen, Léos Carax's Holy Motors and Guillaume Nicloux's The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, captures the period with precision and grace.
Jacquot's adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel, focuses on the myriad ways female bodies were treated as commodities, as...
- 6/9/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
How to adapt a French epistolary novel relayed by a luscious servant from her point of view — itself a subversive proposition when it came out in 1900 — about the relationships she develops in assorted stately homes with both arrogant employers and beaten-down peers? To further complicate the project, how to insert into the mix a substantially larger contemporaneous issue: the shameful blemish on the national psyche that was the rabidly anti-Semitic Dreyfus affair? In the fourth movie version of libertarian author Octave Mirbeau’s groundbreaking Diary of a Chambermaid, director/co-screenwriter Benoît Jacquot has come up with some close-to-flawless strategies. The […]...
- 6/9/2016
- by Howard Feinstein
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
"To think that a cook, for example, has her masters' lives in her hands." Cohen Media Group has released this official trailer for the upcoming Us opening of Benoît Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid, another adaptation of the well-known 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau. This time, French actress Léa Seydoux plays Célestine, a "resentful young Parisian chambermaid". This premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year and also stars Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet and Hervé Pierre. The description states that the film captures a different feeling this time: "the sense of social stiflement, Célestine’'s humiliating submission to Madame's onerous terms of employment, Joseph's virulent anti-Semitism." If you're intrigued, take a look. Here's the official Us trailer for Benoît Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid, from YouTube (via Tfs): Léa Sedoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard & Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds...
- 4/25/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Crafting one of the most eclectic careers in recent memory, following James Bond, Léa Seydoux will be seen in the latest films from Yorgos Lanthimos and Xavier Dolan this year. One of her other features, Diary of a Chambermaid, which premiered last year at the Berlin Film Festival, will finally hit U.S. theaters this summer thanks to Cohen Media Group, and today we have a new trailer.
Directed by Benoit Jacquot, following in the footsteps of Renoir and Bunuel, the story follows Seydoux as a servant who doesn’t exactly fit into her surroundings. Check out the trailer below for the film also starring Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Mélodie Valemberg, Patrick D’Assumçao, Vincent Lacoste, Joséphine Derenne, and Dominique Reymond.
Léa Seydoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in...
Directed by Benoit Jacquot, following in the footsteps of Renoir and Bunuel, the story follows Seydoux as a servant who doesn’t exactly fit into her surroundings. Check out the trailer below for the film also starring Vincent Lindon, Clotilde Mollet, Hervé Pierre, Mélodie Valemberg, Patrick D’Assumçao, Vincent Lacoste, Joséphine Derenne, and Dominique Reymond.
Léa Seydoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in...
- 4/25/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In a summer that's going to be filled with blockbuster spectacle, if you're in the mood for something a little more literary, you'll have some options. And one of them will come in the form of "Diary Of A Chambermaid," the latest effort from Benoît Jacquot ("3 Hearts," "Farewell My Queen"). Based on the novel by Octave Mirbeau novel, and previously brought to the big screen by Jean Renoir and Luis Buñuel, this version stars Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon in the story of a Parisian chambermaid who is pushed to the professional and personal limit when she's sent to the provinces on a new assignment. Here's the official synopsis: Read More: Berlin Review: Benoit Jacquot's 'Diary Of A Chambermaid' Starring Lea Seydoux Léa Sedoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a.
- 4/22/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Lea Seydoux is having a pretty good time right now, hanging out with James Bond in the new movie Spectre. But before we have a chance to see her running around next to Daniel Craig, we can see her in Benoît Jacquot’s new adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel, The Diary of a Chambermaid.
The film features Seydoux as the titular chambermaid Celestine, who joins a new household and becomes the object of lust for her older employer…much to the chagrin of her mistress. The maid is aware of the seductive power she wields, but winds up caught in the power struggles going on within the marriage and the household.
The Diary of a Chambermaid has already seen two adaptations, one by French auteur Jean Renoir, and the other by master surrealist Luis Bunuel. The latter is among the better known of the two, taking the novel’s themes of sex,...
The film features Seydoux as the titular chambermaid Celestine, who joins a new household and becomes the object of lust for her older employer…much to the chagrin of her mistress. The maid is aware of the seductive power she wields, but winds up caught in the power struggles going on within the marriage and the household.
The Diary of a Chambermaid has already seen two adaptations, one by French auteur Jean Renoir, and the other by master surrealist Luis Bunuel. The latter is among the better known of the two, taking the novel’s themes of sex,...
- 2/20/2015
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
At the moment, Lea Seydoux is currently in some exotic location, hanging out with Daniel Craig, and shooting the next Bond movie "Spectre." But just this month the actress appeared in the far more humble picture "The Diary Of A Chambermaid," which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the first international trailer has arrived. Based on the 1900 Octave Mirbeau novel, previously tackled in movies by Jean Renoir and Luis Buñuel, Benoît Jacquot ("3 Hearts," "Farewell My Queen") put his hands on the material that tells the story of a young chambermaid who becomes embroiled in games of jealousy, lust and shame in the household in which she works. Our own Jessica Kiang wasn't really a fan, saying it was skippable "except to Seydoux completists," but that's reason enough for many. Cohen Media Group will release the film in the U.S., but no date has been set. "The...
- 2/20/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Promising a kind of raunchiness, or at least sauciness, never delivered upon, and a confessional, intimate tone never achieved, "Diary of a Chambermaid," the latest title from French director Benoit Jacquot ("3 Hearts," "Farewell My Queen") is a film in search of a reason to exist, other than to set up unflattering comparisons between its director and the two greats who previously assayed the same material: Jean Renoir and Luis Bunuel. Based on the 1900 Octave Mirbeau novel, Jacquot's adaptation brings little new to the neatly-set table, except Lea Seydoux, and perhaps that would even have been enough, had the film served her performance as well as it does her luscious, sulky luminosity. But where Jacquot largely knows what he's doing on a micro-level within individual scenes, and the sets and costuming are pretty special, he seems unable to assemble the parts into a coherent, consistent whole. So the film meanders and hiccups,...
- 2/9/2015
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Cohen Media Group has acquired North American rights to Diary of a Chambermaid, Benoit Jacquot's period drama, starring Lea Seydoux, from Elle Driver. The film, which premiered in competition in Berlin last week, is the latest adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's novel from 1900 about the relationship between a simple chambermaid and the lecherous master of the house. The book has previously been adapted by Jean Renoir (1946) and Luis Bunuel (1964). Read more Berlin Roundtable: Five Fest Actors Talk Sex Scenes, Tough Directors and Dream Roles The deal for Chambermaid was negotiated by Cmg senior vp John Kochman and Elle
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- 2/9/2015
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
★★★☆☆ Benoît Jacquot's adaptation of Diary of a Chambermaid, based on Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel, is engaging and visually stylish but loses momentum towards its end. Léa Seydoux plays the eponymous heroine who is desperate to escape domestic servitude and carve out a new life for herself. Célestine has had plenty of positions as a maid but for various reasons they haven't worked out. Against her better judgement she reluctantly accepts a job in the country. As she arrives at the Lenlaire's provincial home in Normandy, Célestine reflects on her previous jobs - those she left of her own accord and those she was forced to vacate. Since she was twelve, Célestine has had to fight off the advances of men.
- 2/8/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The classic novel of below-stairs power struggles has become a strangely directionless study of bourgeois desperation, despite a fine central performance from Léa Seydoux
Léa Seydoux, in all her haughty and sullen sexiness, dominates this well-crafted piece of suspenseful if curiously pointless hokum from French director Benoît Jacquot; it leads its audience up an elegantly tended garden path to nowhere in particular. Diary of a Chambermaid is taken from the 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau; it was previously adapted by Jean Renoir in 1946 with Pauline Goddard in the leading role of the chambermaid, Célestine, and again in 1964 by Luis Buñuel, starring Jeanne Moreau. This new version mutes the sexual fetishism that interested previous film-makers, and creates an ending which is exasperatingly ambiguous, as well as rushed. Yet Jacquot’s film disperses the elements of Célestine’s anxiety into interestingly composed flashback sequences.
Seydoux is Célestine, a beautiful young woman who radiates...
Léa Seydoux, in all her haughty and sullen sexiness, dominates this well-crafted piece of suspenseful if curiously pointless hokum from French director Benoît Jacquot; it leads its audience up an elegantly tended garden path to nowhere in particular. Diary of a Chambermaid is taken from the 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau; it was previously adapted by Jean Renoir in 1946 with Pauline Goddard in the leading role of the chambermaid, Célestine, and again in 1964 by Luis Buñuel, starring Jeanne Moreau. This new version mutes the sexual fetishism that interested previous film-makers, and creates an ending which is exasperatingly ambiguous, as well as rushed. Yet Jacquot’s film disperses the elements of Célestine’s anxiety into interestingly composed flashback sequences.
Seydoux is Célestine, a beautiful young woman who radiates...
- 2/7/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Camille Claudel 1915
Written and directed by Bruno Dumont
France, 2013
Camille Claudel 1915 is a 3-day portrait of great sculptress Camille Claudel and her life in an institution. A rarity in art history, Claudel found success during her lifetime and was often exhibited alongside male contemporaries. Emblematic of larger issues plaguing art history and criticism, academically, she is most often referred to in relation to sculptor Auguste Rodin, rather than on the merits of her own work. His lover, muse, and student for over a decade, her relationship with him was a source of great inspiration and turmoil over the course of her life. An incredibly emotive and imaginative artist and sculptor, she was heralded by famous art critic Octave Mirbeau, Claude Debussy was passionate about her work, and Henrik Ibsen apparently based one of his plays on her tumultuous relationship with Rodin.
Standing the test of time, her art remains powerful and raw.
Written and directed by Bruno Dumont
France, 2013
Camille Claudel 1915 is a 3-day portrait of great sculptress Camille Claudel and her life in an institution. A rarity in art history, Claudel found success during her lifetime and was often exhibited alongside male contemporaries. Emblematic of larger issues plaguing art history and criticism, academically, she is most often referred to in relation to sculptor Auguste Rodin, rather than on the merits of her own work. His lover, muse, and student for over a decade, her relationship with him was a source of great inspiration and turmoil over the course of her life. An incredibly emotive and imaginative artist and sculptor, she was heralded by famous art critic Octave Mirbeau, Claude Debussy was passionate about her work, and Henrik Ibsen apparently based one of his plays on her tumultuous relationship with Rodin.
Standing the test of time, her art remains powerful and raw.
- 9/6/2013
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
Give Marion Cotillard the award for being one of the more interesting actresses to hit screens in recent years. Ever since her Oscar-winning turn as Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, Cotillard has at least been on my radar. She’s done some very interesting roles, from playing John Dillinger’s moll in Public Enemies, to her turns in small films like Rust & Bone and even bigger films like The Dark Knight Rises. Now she returns to her native country in a new adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s novel Diary Of A Chambermaid.
Diary Of A Chambermaid follows the life of Celestine, a young woman who works as a chambermaid for wealthy families at the end of the 19th Century. The current production is slated to be directed by Benoit Jacquot, who also did last year’s period-piece Farewell, My Queen, about the last days of Marie Antoinette. That...
Diary Of A Chambermaid follows the life of Celestine, a young woman who works as a chambermaid for wealthy families at the end of the 19th Century. The current production is slated to be directed by Benoit Jacquot, who also did last year’s period-piece Farewell, My Queen, about the last days of Marie Antoinette. That...
- 2/15/2013
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
Star of La Vie En Rose set to play lead role in Benoit Jacquot's forthcoming remake of classic French tale
Marion Cotillard is in talks to play the lead in a forthcoming remake of the classic French tale Diary of a Chambermaid for director Benoit Jacquot, according to Variety.
Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel, a critique of bourgeois France's fondness for domestic servants, has been the basis of two films, a 1946 English-language version by director Jean Renoir that starred Paulette Goddard and relocated the story to Hollywood, and a 1964 French-Italian production from Luis Buñuel that featured Jeanne Moreau in the lead.
Cotillard is in line to play Celestine, an ambitious young chambermaid who struggles to cope with the eccentricities and perversions of her wealthy yet appalling employers. First published in serial form at the time of the famous Alfred Dreyfus affair, which crystallised liberal and rightwing attitudes in fin-de-siècle France, Mirbeau's...
Marion Cotillard is in talks to play the lead in a forthcoming remake of the classic French tale Diary of a Chambermaid for director Benoit Jacquot, according to Variety.
Octave Mirbeau's 1900 novel, a critique of bourgeois France's fondness for domestic servants, has been the basis of two films, a 1946 English-language version by director Jean Renoir that starred Paulette Goddard and relocated the story to Hollywood, and a 1964 French-Italian production from Luis Buñuel that featured Jeanne Moreau in the lead.
Cotillard is in line to play Celestine, an ambitious young chambermaid who struggles to cope with the eccentricities and perversions of her wealthy yet appalling employers. First published in serial form at the time of the famous Alfred Dreyfus affair, which crystallised liberal and rightwing attitudes in fin-de-siècle France, Mirbeau's...
- 2/15/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
"Rust and Bone" actress Marion Cotillard is in negotiations to star in Benoit Jacquot's "Diary of a Chambermaid".
The project is based on Octave Mirbeau's classic 1900 novel. Cotillard would play Celestine, a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for wealthy families from 1890 to 1900.
The story explores condition of house servants and perversions within France's upper-class society at the turn of the 20th century. At the time of release it was considered subversive.
The property has been adapted onto film twice before - in 1946 by Jean Renoir, and in 1964 by Luis Bunuel.
This new $8.7 million version is penned by Helene Zimmer and Jacquot, and is being produced by the team behind last year's "Farewell My Queen".
Shooting aims to kick off next March.
Source: Variety...
The project is based on Octave Mirbeau's classic 1900 novel. Cotillard would play Celestine, a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for wealthy families from 1890 to 1900.
The story explores condition of house servants and perversions within France's upper-class society at the turn of the 20th century. At the time of release it was considered subversive.
The property has been adapted onto film twice before - in 1946 by Jean Renoir, and in 1964 by Luis Bunuel.
This new $8.7 million version is penned by Helene Zimmer and Jacquot, and is being produced by the team behind last year's "Farewell My Queen".
Shooting aims to kick off next March.
Source: Variety...
- 2/15/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
• Michael Mann (Collateral, Public Enemies) is set to direct Chris Hemsworth in his new thriller that Mann has been developing and writing for over a year. Between Hemsworth’s superhero and fairy tale projects, we’re excited to see him team up with Mann, known for his realism and ability to elevate standard genre fare. The Australian actor will appear next with Olivia Wilde in Rush, the Ron Howard race car film, out this September. [Variety]
• Tomorrowland has its villain, and it’s none other than House star Hugh Laurie, EW confirmed. The hush-hush project from Brad Bird (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,...
• Tomorrowland has its villain, and it’s none other than House star Hugh Laurie, EW confirmed. The hush-hush project from Brad Bird (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,...
- 2/15/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Marion Cotillard is circling the lead role of Celestine in Benoit Jacquot's "Diary of a Chambermaid," adapted from the novel by Octave Mirbeau. Celestine is an ambitious Parisian maid working at wealthy families' estates from 1890 to 1900; the novel underscores the upstairs-downstairs dynamic and the sexual perversions in the turn-of-the-century French class system. Variety reports that Cotillard has met with Jacquot and is looking forward to working with the director. Production is set to start in March 2014. The project is written by Helene Zimmer and Jacquot. The duo teamed for Jacquot's Cesar-nominated "Farewell, My Queen," an unsettling horror story about the last days of Versailles' rule under Marie Antoinette, and the mercurial monarch's tumultuous sex life. It stars Diane Kruger and Lea Seydoux. "Diary" has been adapted for the big screen twice; once by Jean Renoir in 1946, starring actress and Charlie...
- 2/14/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Rust and Bone star Marion Cotillard, largely ignored by the Academy Awards, is now in talks to topline Benoit Jacquot‘s Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d’une femme de chambre), based on Octave Mirbeau‘s classic novel. Mirbeau’s erotic 19th century novel has been adapted before – in 1946, Jean Renoir directed Paulette Goddard in a Hollywood-set makeover; and in 1964, Luis Bunuel directed Jeanne Moreau in a French-Italian adaptation. Cotillard will take the lead role of Celestine a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for wealthy families through whose eyes we see the perversions within France’s upper-class society at the turn of...
- 2/14/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Since Marion Cotillard broke on to the world stage in 2007 with the heartbreaking Edith Piaf biopic La vie en rose, she's been captivating audiences and critics. She's starred in big action blockbusters like Inception and The Dark Knight Rises. She's appeared in gritty dramas like Little White Lies and Contagion. And she's stayed in the award season conversation thanks to Midnight in Paris, then Rust and Bone. But with award season limping into its final days, Cotillard is looking ahead to what might make her the talk of the red carpet walk next year. And it just might be Diary of a Chambermaid. Variety reports Cotillard has been approached to headline French director Benoit Jacquot's in-the-works adaptation of the classic Octave Mirbeau 1900 novel. Should she sign on, this gorgeous leading lady would play the drama's heroine Celestine, the titular chambermaid whose job gives her a unique insight into the perversions...
- 2/14/2013
- cinemablend.com
We've seen Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf, as a femme fatale, and more recently as a disabled whale trainer, so on the surface, playing a chambermaid doesn't exactly seem challenging. However, when you're treading on territory already tackled by the greats Jean Renoir and Luis Bunuel, there is certainly a lot to live up to. The actress is in negotiations to take the lead in another cinematic adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's classic "Diary Of A Chambermaid" for French helmer Benoit Jacquot ("Farewell My Queen," "Sade"). Cotillard will take the lead role of Celestine, a chambermaid for wealthy families through whose eyes we see the seamier sides of upper class life. Among them, her first employer becomes so obsessed with her boots that when he dies, he's found with one of them stuffed in his mouth. And she later comes between the power struggle of a bourgeois couple. It's been...
- 2/14/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Benoit Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) which is based on Octave Mirbeau's classic novel, has Marion Cotillard of The Dark Knight Rises and Rust & Bone in negotiations. Variety reports that Cotillard would play Celestine in the film set in 1890 to 1900, playing an ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid. Viewers will see the condition of house servants and the perversions of France's upper-crust through Celestine's eyes. The property has had two adaptations, the first in 1946 with Jean Renoir at the wheel and Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith and Hurd Hatfield starring, followed by 1964's Luis Buñuel film starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret.
- 2/14/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Benoit Jacquot's Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) which is based on Octave Mirbeau's classic novel, has Marion Cotillard of The Dark Knight Rises and Rust & Bone in negotiations. Variety reports that Cotillard would play Celestine in the film set in 1890 to 1900, playing an ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid. Viewers will see the condition of house servants and the perversions of France's upper-crust through Celestine's eyes. The property has had two adaptations, the first in 1946 with Jean Renoir at the wheel and Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith and Hurd Hatfield starring, followed by 1964's Luis Buñuel film starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Georges Géret.
- 2/14/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 26, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Paulette Goddard (r.) is Celestine in Diary of a Chambermaid.
Legendary director Jean Renoir’s (The Rules of the Game) 1946 drama-romance film of Octave Mirbeau’s 1900 novel Diary of a Chambermaid was adapted for the screen by one of its co-stars, Burgess Meredith of Rocky fame. We imagine that Rocky himself would utter an enthusiastic “Yo!” if he heard the Renoir classic was finally making its official DVD and Blu-ray debut!
Paulette Goddard (Modern Times) plays the title character, a sexy and saucy servant named Celestine, whose forthrightness has a curious effect on a wealthy Parisian household. Determined to elevate her lot in life, Celestine uses her unsubtle charms to beguile the master of the household. Meredith is on board as Captain Mauger, the bizarre and shell-shocked neighbor, while Judith Anderson (Rebecca) appears as the mistress of the household.
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Paulette Goddard (r.) is Celestine in Diary of a Chambermaid.
Legendary director Jean Renoir’s (The Rules of the Game) 1946 drama-romance film of Octave Mirbeau’s 1900 novel Diary of a Chambermaid was adapted for the screen by one of its co-stars, Burgess Meredith of Rocky fame. We imagine that Rocky himself would utter an enthusiastic “Yo!” if he heard the Renoir classic was finally making its official DVD and Blu-ray debut!
Paulette Goddard (Modern Times) plays the title character, a sexy and saucy servant named Celestine, whose forthrightness has a curious effect on a wealthy Parisian household. Determined to elevate her lot in life, Celestine uses her unsubtle charms to beguile the master of the household. Meredith is on board as Captain Mauger, the bizarre and shell-shocked neighbor, while Judith Anderson (Rebecca) appears as the mistress of the household.
- 12/24/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
While New Yorkers have plenty of opportunity to see classic films on the big screen, you'll be hard pressed to find a lineup as front to back awesome as the Film Society Of Lincoln Center's "15 For 15: Celebrating Rialto Pictures."
The series honors the reknowned arthouse distribution shingle founded in 1997 that has brought some of the best known (and previously unknown) classics of cinema to American audiences. And the selection here by programmers Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern represents the breadth and scope of the films Rialto has put their stamp on, ranging from the French New Wave ("Breathless") to film noir ("Rififi") to comedy ("Billy Liar") and more. There is something here for everybody and with the series kicking off tonight, we've got a special prize for some lucky readers.
Courtesy of Film Society Of Lincoln Center, we've got a copy of the excellent Rialto DVD...
The series honors the reknowned arthouse distribution shingle founded in 1997 that has brought some of the best known (and previously unknown) classics of cinema to American audiences. And the selection here by programmers Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern represents the breadth and scope of the films Rialto has put their stamp on, ranging from the French New Wave ("Breathless") to film noir ("Rififi") to comedy ("Billy Liar") and more. There is something here for everybody and with the series kicking off tonight, we've got a special prize for some lucky readers.
Courtesy of Film Society Of Lincoln Center, we've got a copy of the excellent Rialto DVD...
- 3/19/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s novel “Diary of a Chambermaid” (1964) was made at a decisive point in the master filmmaker’s long, dynamic, and illustrious career. The film marked Buñuel’s second foray into European filmmaking after an almost thirty-year hiatus, during which time he made a large number of films in Mexico, contributing greatly to what is now considered the nation’s midcentury cinematic Golden Age. The Spanish filmmaker first returned to Europe to make Viridiana (1961) in Spain (the only film Buñuel ever completed in his native country). Viridiana proved a sensation in every sense of the word: it made a huge splash for international critics and audiences starting with its enthusiastic reception at that year’s Cannes Film Festival and it was met with legendary controversy (no stranger to the filmmaker) in Franco’s tightly-regulated Spain. Viridiana revisits several of Buñuels’ thematic preoccupations from his Surrealist years in France and his pseudo-social-realist...
- 1/4/2012
- by Landon Palmer
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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