Jean Renoir’s The Diary of a Chambermaid
Film
jean renoir
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, US 90024
March 5, 2023 | 7pm
UCLA AMIA Student Chapter hosts a double feature of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Jean Renoir and Anybody’s Woman by Dorothy Arzner. Before their time as esteemed faculty at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Dorothy Arzner and Jean Renoir were both esteemed auteurs. The UCLA AMIA Student Chapter celebrates Arzner’s incisive insight into women’s experiences and Renoir’s lyrical examination of sociopolitical dynamics, while also reflecting on what it just might have been like to attend each director’s “Advanced Motion Picture Direction” class during the early 1960s.
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Paulette Godard plays the ambitious servant whose arrival into an eccentric household of decadent French aristocrats eventually wreaks havoc. Breaking away from the leisurely documentary style found in Jean Renoir’s previous U.S. film, The Southerner (1945), The Diary of a Chambermaid has a theatrically stylized continental flair. The film’s subversive bitterness and subtle melodramatic nature illustrate the director’s brilliant interweaving of the working and elite classes. 1946, US, 35mm, b&w, 87 min. Director: Jean Renoir. Screenwriter: Burgess Meredith. With: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield.
Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Part of: Archive Treasures: UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover!
Admission is free. No advance reservations.
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