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The Diary of a Chambermaid

Radu Jude

Quinzaine 2026 | Feature film | 94 min

World premiere

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 away from her, in Romania.

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With

Ana Dumitrașcu (Gianina),
Marie Rivière (Madame Anne),
Mélanie Thierry (Marguerite Donnadieu),
Vincent Macaigne (Pierre Donnadieu)

Photography

Marius Panduru

Production design

Stéphanie Delpech

Screenplay

Radu Jude

Sound

Damien Luquet

Editing

Catalin Cristutiu

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Radu Jude is a Romanian director and screenwriter. In 2006, he made the short film The Tube with a Hat, winner of multiple international awards. Jude's feature debut The Happiest Girl in the World was selected for more than 50 international film festivals. Titles such as Aferim!, Scarred Hearts and Everybody in Our Family followed and won multiple awards. The international premiere of The Dead Nation in Locarno 2017 marked his debut in documentary film. His feature Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn was awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film in Berlinale 2021.

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Screenings in Cannes

05/15 at 12:00 - Théâtre Croisette

05/15 at 20:30 - Théâtre Croisette

05/16 at 11:30 - Cinéma Les Arcades / Salle 1

05/16 at 16:30 - Cinéma Le Raimu

05/16 at 19:00 - Cinéma Alexandre III

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre

The Diary of a Chambermaid

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