Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up far from her, in Romania. The maternal absence deepens into a wound but, as Christmas approaches, the promise of a reunion begins to take shape.
Directed by Radu Jude
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Ana Dumitrașcu
Gianina

Marie Rivière
Madame Anne

Louen Bouteiller
Louen

Arnaud Baudoin
Kalil

Mélanie Thierry
Marguerite Donnadieu

Vincent Macaigne
Pierre Donnadieu

Ilinca Manolache
Ilinca
Sofia Dragoman
Maria
Liliana Ghiță
Bunica
Kahina Mounier
Theatre Member
Doralice Aberrane
Theatre Member
Louve Proust
Louve
Prince Longo
Theatre Member
Samuel Ame
Theatre Member
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