Luis Bunuel joins illustrious list of directors to be featured on our podcast.  What an honor!  And in classic, Random-Acts-of-Cinema-fashion, we’re going to start with a later film in a filmmaker’s oeuvre that doesn’t quite fit the mold.  Diary of a Chambermaid tells the 1920s-set story of Celestine, a beautiful and confident femme du chambre who takes employment at a large country estate filled with a mix of controlling, repressed, ignorant, perverse, boorish, and murderous characters.  She moves among them with aplomb and a sort of detached participation until a vicious crime leads her to more direct and risky involvement with their sordid world.  Bunuel crafts a steadily-paced and satirizing takedown of French manners and society that leaves it’s viewers unsettled and uncertain about the trajectory of the European political landscape.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be reviewing and discussing Torben Skjodt Jensen’s Carl Th. Dreyer - My Metier (1995).