The read
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Metacritic81/100
Critics rate it 20 points higher than audiences do.
Key crew
Cast
- Ana DumitrașcuGianina
- Marie RivièreMadame Anne
- Louen BouteillerLouen
- Arnaud BaudoinKalil
- Mélanie ThierryMarguerite Donnadieu
- Vincent MacaignePierre Donnadieu
- Ilinca ManolacheIlinca
- Sofia DragomanMaria
- Liliana GhițăBunica
- Kahina MounierTheatre Member
- Doralice AberraneTheatre Member
- Louve ProustLouve
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookfairy talehalloweentheatre groupsatirebordeaux, francemaidhousekeeperromaniatheater trouperomanianchristmas