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Interview: Léa Seydoux
A sly, sullen lynx with airs and graces and a habit of trashing her bosses under her breath, Célestine in Benoît Jacquot’s Diary of a Chambermaid is the latest proof of Leá Seydoux’s ability to create vividly uningratiating women. Molested by too many of her masters and forced to scrub too many chamber pots, she has almost (but not quite) had her natural compassion squeezed out of her. Hence, perhaps, her taste for brutalizing sex: Seydoux recalls neither the fiery Paulette Goddard of Jean Renoir’s version nor the detached, adaptable Célestine whom Jeanne Moreau played for Luis Buñuel in , but an extra-carnal amalgam of Mai Zetterling and Simone Signoret.
The troglodyte who picks this overripe plum is Vincent Lindon’s surly coachman Joseph, not only a vicious Jew-hater but a suspected child sex killer. Their coming together in crime and lust intensifies Jacquot’s allegory of Dreyfus Affair–era France’s long slide into full-blown anti-Semitism and collaborationism. Célestine’s vapid response to Joseph’s racist invective and her smiling at the Schadenfreude of the village gossips feasting on the precise details of a little girl’s rape and murder cast her as the worst kind of passive colluder.
The high-born Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne—who t
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