The Diary of a Chambermaid

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.

• Radu JudeDirector
• Radu JudeScreenplay

• Ana DumitrașcuGianina
• Mélanie ThierryMarguerite Donnadieu
• Vincent MacaignePierre Donnadieu
• Marie RivièreMadame Anne
• Louen BouteillerLouen
• Arnaud BaudoinKalil
• Ilinca ManolacheIlinca
• Sofia DragomanMaria
• Liliana GhițăBunica
• Kahina MounierTheatre Member
• Doralice AberraneTheatre Member
• Louve ProustLouve