1900. Célestine (Léa Seydoux), uma jovem camareira que é muito cobiçada por sua beleza, acaba de chegar de Paris para trabalhar para a família Lanlaire. Enquanto foge dos flertes de seu patrão, ela deve lidar com a rigorosa personalidade de Madame Lanlaire (Clotilde Mollet), que governa o lar com punho de ferro. Ao mesmo tempo, Célestine conhece Joseph, um misterioso jardineiro com ideias políticas subversivas.
France, around 1900. Coming from the vibrancy of Paris, pert Célestine is procured as a chambermaid in Normandy. In the Lanlaire’s villa she encounters the lecherous man of the house and his asexual, tyrannical and jealous wife. Célestine is determined to avoid the fate suffered by the cook Marianne who has already secretly killed one child born out of wedlock and now despairingly realises she is pregnant again. The lively maid is intrigued by what the mysterious manservant Joseph is up to: he distributes anti-Semitic leaflets and suggests that she could work for him as a prostitute in Cherbourg…
Releases:
