Ana Dumitrascu, Vincent Macaigne & Mélanie Thierry Board Radu Jude’s ‘The Diary of a Chambermaid’

French producer Saïd Ben Saïd has unveiled the cast for Romanian auteur workhorse Radu Jude‘s adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid. To be shot in Romania (and then Bordeaux) next month, Ana Dumitrascu (recently featured in Jude’s Dracula – which just preemed in Locarno) will topline alongside Vincent Macaigne and Mélanie Thierry. In this version, we follow a young Romanian woman who has travelled to France to work for a French family and who also joins an amateur theatre company who are working on an adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid. The filmmaker already has his next project lined up right after this in Frankenstein in Romania. Seeing that this has some French coin – could Jude finally break into the Cannes competition line-up? Luis Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid (1962) premiered at the Venice Film Festival.