Drama

The Diary of a Chambermaid

Name: The Diary of a Chambermaid
Director: Radu Jude
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-10-23
Duration: 94 min
Cast: Ana Dumitrașcu, Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Macaigne, Marie Rivière, Louen Bouteiller

October 23, 2026

1h 34m

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.