Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre (aka Diary Of A Chambermaid) (1964)

Set in the 1920s, a chambermaid (Jeanne Moreau) from Paris goes to the countryside to work at a provincial estate. It is there where she encounters perversion, corruption, anti-Semitism, rape and murder. Loosely based on the novel by Octave Mirbeau (previously filmed in 1946 and again in 2015) and directed by Luis Bunuel (DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE). Beautifully shot in B&W wide screen by Roger Fellous (ANATOMY OF A MARRIAGE), Bunuel's film stays away from the surrealism he is usually associated with and presents a fairly straight forward presentation. But he still tweaks the film with his usual cynical and satirical view of the upper class bourgeoisie. I found the film's ambiguous ending unsettling as we're not 100% sure if a character is an innocent victim of circumstantial evidence or a pedophile killer who's got off scot free. It's easily the most compelling of the three versions I've seen. With Michel Piccoli, Georges Geret, Daniel Ivernel, Francoise Lugagne and Muni.