My Week with Maisy vs The Diary of a Chambermaid
My Week with Maisy is the shorter watch at 18m compared with 1h 34m. My Week with Maisy is the older of the two (2024 against 2026). Both are comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
My Week with Maisy
The Diary of a Chambermaid| My Week with Maisy | The Diary of a Chambermaid | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 0.0/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2026 |
| Length | 18m | 1h 34m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama | Comedy, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Mika Simmons | Radu Jude |
| Main cast | MyAnna Buring, Joanna Lumley, Poppy Gilbert, Ellie-Mae Siame, Adrian Christopher | Vincent Macaigne, Ilinca Manolache, Marie Rivière, Mélanie Thierry, Ana Dumitrașcu |
Synopsis
My Week with Maisy
Mrs Foster, a retired lady whose cup is half empty, is starting chemotherapy and is understandably anxious. The last thing she needs, is to have to share the treatment room with a 'know it all child' who wants to grow up to be a lesbian. But through their unexpected friendship, Maisy Jones gives Mrs Foster much more than just a glimmer of hope.
The Diary of a Chambermaid
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…
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