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Léa Seydoux follows in the footsteps of Paulette Goddard and Jeanne Moreau as Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress (Clotilde Mollet), must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur (Hervé Pierre), and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph (Vincent Lindon). Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel's version to Octave Mirbeau's original 1900 novel, Benoît Jacquot has one eye on contemporary France: the sense of social stiflement, Célestine's humiliating submission to Madame's onerous terms of employment, Joseph's virulent anti-Semitism. But the turn-of-the-century setting saw the rise of Freudian ideas about the human unconscious and so Jacquot takes care to look past the characters' outward behavior and appearance to the repression and compulsions that lie behind.
Original Release
04/01/2015
US Release
07/07/2015
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Léa Seydoux | Célestine |
Vincent Lindon | Joseph |
Clotilde Mollet | Madame Lanlaire |
Hervé Pierre | Monsieur Lanlaire |
Mélodie Valemberg | Marianne |
Patrick d'Assumcao | Le capitaine |
Vincent Lacoste | Georges |
Joséphine Derenne | La grand-mère de Georges |
Dominique Reymond | La placeuse |
Rosette | Rose |
Directors
Writers
Benoit Jacquot, Hélène Zimmer, Octave Mirbeau
Cast
Name | Character |
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Léa Seydoux | Célestine |
Vincent Lindon | Joseph |
Clotilde Mollet | Madame Lanlaire |
Hervé Pierre | Monsieur Lanlaire |
Mélodie Valemberg | Marianne |
Patrick d'Assumcao | Le capitaine |
Vincent Lacoste | Georges |
Joséphine Derenne | La grand-mère de Georges |
Dominique Reymond | La placeuse |
Rosette | Rose |
Adriana Asti | Elvira Parsi, la maquerelle |
Aurelia Petit | La maîtresse (train) |
Jean-Louis Croquet | Le maître (train) |
Alain Eloy | Le douanier |
Yvette Petit | Madame Gouin, la mercière |
Maud Wyler | La jeune bourgeoise |
Anne Raphaël | Femme 1 |
Anne Lichtle | Femme 2 |
Hélène Schwaller | Femme 3 |
Claire Ruppli | Femme 4 |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kristina Larsen | Executive Producer |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Producer |
Luc Dardenne | Producer |
Jean-Pierre Guérin | Producer |
Philippe Logie | Producer |
Delphine Tomson | Producer |
Kristina Larsen | Producer |