Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) starring Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli. Directed by Luis Bunuel. Bunuel takes a look at the rise of Nazism in Europe in the 1930s and a chambermaid's view of  bourgeois society in the same time frame. Moreau stars as a chic domestic worker who travels from Paris to the hinterlands to work for a decidedly eccentric family. She witnesses men talking with satisfaction about killing "wops" and "kikes." She suspects Joseph, the groundskeeper of her employer, of raping and killing a little girl who lived next door. (The omniscient camera knows that she is right.) It's a strange movie with some strange characters, but more conventional the Bunuel's usual offerings. It's in French, with English subtitles. Grade: B+