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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Cotillard Is Hired As A "Chambermaid"

"Rust and Bone" actress Marion Cotillard is in talks to star in the latest film adaptation of "Diary of a Chambermaid" says Variety.

Based on Octave Mirbeau's classic 1900 novel--the story follows Celestine (Cotillard), a young and ambitious woman who works as a chambermaid for wealthy families from 1890 to 1900. It explores the condition of house servants and perversions within France's upper-class society at the turn of the 20th century. At the time it was published it was considered subversive.

The property has been adapted onto film twice before - in 1946 by Jean Renoir, and in 1964 by Luis Bunuel.

Helene Zimmer and Benoît Jacquot wrote the adapted script from which Jacquot directs.

Jean-Pierre Guérin Kristina Larsen and Pedro Uriol  will produce the pic. The trio worked with Jacquot on last year's "Farewell My Queen".

Production hopes to kick off next March.

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