The Diary of a Chambermaid

Directed by Radu Jude

Film Movement

2026

94 Minutes

Romania, France

French, Romanian, English

Comedy, Drama

Literature, Eastern European, French Language, European Studies, Social Justice, Labor and Work Issues

Not Rated

Library Pricing:

DVD $150.00

Blu-ray $150.00

PPR $350.00

DRL $499.00

PPR+DRL $599.00

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A young Romanian woman living in France works for a French family, and joins a theatre company who are adapting Octave Mirbeau's "The Diary of a Chambermaid."

Cast

Ana Dumitrascu
Mélanie Thierry
Vincent Macaigne
Marie Rivière
Louen Bouteiller

Highest Rating
"“Diary of a Chambermaid”... ends on a bittersweet note whose nimbleness fully encapsulates why Radu Jude is among our great filmmakers. "

Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
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"[T]his satiric anti-capitalist takedown builds confidently towards an explosive final act that'll likely catch you unawares."

James Mottram, Radio Times
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"Radu Jude manages to construct a picture that is not only intelligent and witty but also incredibly thought-provoking...."

Hector A. Gonzalez, InSession Film
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"Jude’s Diary of a Chambermaid is an exuberant hodgepodge of genre modes...."

William Repass, Slant Magazine
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"Jude executes the melange with certainty, mixing it all together into a welcome velouté of political modernity and dark humour."

Olivia Popp, Cineuropa
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"Just as Mirbeau’s novel decried the disparities between the haves and have-nots in his era, in his own subdued way Jude argues that that divide has only grown worse in the last 125 years."

Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
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"The Diary of a Chambermaid may not be Jude’s most surprising provocation, but it seems like his freshest."

Sarp Sozdinler, In Review Online
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"Like Mirbeau before him, Jude dissects bourgeois rot through formal mischief and corrosive irony, though he does so for an age of migrant precarity, performative liberalism, and atomized labor. Grade: A."

Martin Tsai, AwardsWatch
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"The diary’s final entry is its best, an unadorned and affecting maternal melodrama with geopolitical implications, and a deus ex machina ending punctuated, in the film’s closing, shot, by an ironic wink."

Mark Asch, Little White Lies