The Diary of a Chambermaid

Le Journal d'une femme de chambre

Director

Radu Jude

Runtime

94 min

Release date

27 November 2026

Country

France

Language

French

Genres

Drama, Comedy

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.