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Le journal d'une femme de chambre
Dnevnik sobarice
Radu Jude · Romania, France, 2026 · 94 min
Romanian director Radu Jude's adaptation of Octave Mirbeau's classic novel acquires a powerful contemporary resonance, candidly addressing the plight of migrant workers in present-day Europe. Gianina, a young Romanian woman, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of the maid with an amateur theatre troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She cares for Louen, her employers' son, while her own daughter is growing up far away in Romania. Her absence as a mother leaves a deep wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of reunion begins to take shape.
"I often reflect on migration from Romania to the West, which involves somewhere around 4-5 million people. In other words, a quarter of the population has left the country to live and work someplace else. Part of my own family has left. Of course, their stories are not those that Mirbeau tells in his novel, but it remained a kind of reference point for situations of which I am personally aware or have heard about, and which resonate in some way with the situations described in The Diary of a Chambermaid." (Radu Jude)
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