Le Journal d’une femme de chambre (Tagebuch einer Kammerzofe)

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (Tagebuch einer Kammerzofe) | France 2026 | Directed and written by Radu Jude, after the novel by Octave Mirbeau | Cinematography: Marius Panduru | Cast: Ana Dumitrașcu, Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Macaigne, Marie Rivière, Louen Bouteiller, Sofia Dragoman, Ilinca Manolache | 94 min | French-Romanian, original version with subtitles | Radu Jude concludes with the TAGEBUCH where he began with KONTINENTAL '25. He adapts classics of European cinema with an eye to today's general and specifically Romanian conditions. In the first case he started from Rossellini's EUROPA '51; now he turns to the 1964 film by Luis Buñuel, which in turn is based on a French novel from 1900. Gianina is a young mother who works as a maid of all work for a family in Bordeaux. She cooks, she cleans, and she looks after the son, to whom she tells Romanian fairy tales, sometimes so effectively that the boy becomes completely disturbed.