Le journal d’une femme de chambre, The Diary of a Chambermaid

Radu Jude

France, Romania, 2026, Color, 94’

Gianina, a young Romanian woman, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses with an amateur theatre company, playing the role of a chambermaid in an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s Diary of a Chambermaid. Day to day, she looks after Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter grows up far away from her, back in Romania. (La Quinzaine des cinéastes)

Preview screening, as part of the closing night of the 37th edition of FIDMarseille.

Technical sheet

  • Script:
    Radu Jude
  • Photography:
    Marius Panduru
  • Editing:
    Catalin Cristutiu
  • Sound:
    Damien Luquet
  • Production:
    Saïd Ben Saïd (SBS Productions ), Vlad Rădulescu (Avanpost)
  • Contact:
    Miliani Benzerfa (Potemkine Films)

Filmography

Radu Jude

The Tube with a Hat, 2006

In the Morning, 2007

Alexandra, 2007

The Happiest Girl in the World, 2009

A Film for Friends, 2011

Everybody in Our Family, 2012

Shadow of a Cloud, 2013

It Can Pass through the Wall, 2014

Aferim!, 2015

Scarred Hearts, 2016

The Dead Nation, 2017

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, 2018

The Marshal’s Two Executions, 2018

Uppercase Print, 2020

The Exit of the Trains, 2020

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, 2021

Caricaturana, 2021

Plastic Semiotic, 2021

The Potemkinists, 2022

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, 2023

Eight Postcards from Utopia, 2024

Sleep #2, 2024

Kontinental '25, 2025