Cannes: The Romanian satirist’s latest loosely adapts Octave Mirbeau’s novel into a sharp-witted mother-daughter epistolary. Loosely adapted from Octave Mirbeau’s Decadent novel, and transformed farcically as only filmmaker Radu Jude can , “ The Diary of a Chambermaid ” is yet another socioeconomic economic satire from a Romanian artist whose veins practically pulse with the stuff. At a mere 94 minutes in length, its meandering, meta-textual appearance might seem like a misfire at first, but it