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DAIRY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Sex and sadism among the bourgeoisie of provincial France, with Jeanne Moreau as the Parisian maid who studies evil through a cool, clear glass...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Sex and sadism among the bourgeoisie of provincial France, with Jeanne Moreau as the Parisian maid who studies evil through a cool, clear glass...
...umble cockney draper's clerk who comes into a hunexpected inheritance, takes up wif a girl (Carrie Nye) from the local haristocracy and proceeds to get engaged. After a heady spell of high life, Kipps is disillusioned and marries a non-U charmer of a chambermaid (Polly James) from his own class. But his ex-fiancée's caddish brother absconds with Kipps's last thruppence. Presto! An alcoholic playwright whom he once befriended showers him with a handsome percentage of the royalties from his first hit play...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. In the French countryside. Director Luis Buñuel (Viridiana) mounts a fascinating if inconclusive study of sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder as seen through the eyes of a worldly-wise Parisian maid (Jeanne Moreau...
Smoldering Stew. Last week a chambermaid in the Hotel Novelty smelled something burning. Opening the door to a small room with yellowing photographs tacked to the walls, she saw an unmade bed and an overdone rabbit stew smoldering on a gas cooking ring. Slumped in a chair and dead of a heart attack lay 97-year-old La Belle Otero, her jet hair now grey, her teeth false, her wrinkled skin still highly rouged. A neighbor who had come in each afternoon to tidy up gave Caroline Otero's epitaph: "She was constantly talking about her past...