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Bookmark this pageCelestine, Maid at Your Service (1974)
Director: Clifford Brown Jesus Franco
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An object lesson in how potentially liberating material (the nominal source is Octave Mirbeau's Diary of a Chambermaid) can be manhandled into heavy-handed voyeurism treading an unresolved line between the Pasolini-inspired bawdy romp and Buñuelian subversion. Celestine, fleeing a brothel after a police raid, finds herself in a stately home full of promisingly wan-looking sexual repressives she makes it her task to liberate, while still serving the needs of her fellow-workers (male and female). The print under review is rendered unwatchable by terrible dubbing.Author: VG
Cast & crew
Director: Clifford Brown Jesus Franco
Producer: Jacques Garcia
Cast: Lina Romay, Howard Vernon, Jean-Pierre Granet, Pamela Stanford, Olivier Mathot full cast
Duration: 84 mins
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