The Maid (2009)

Recommended

Chile/Mexico

Feature Film

Original Title: La nana

Director: Sebastián Silva

Writers: Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva

Cinematographer: Sergio Armstrong

Cast: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Alejandro Goic, Andrea García-Huidobro, Mariana Loyola, Agustín Silva, Mercedes Villanueva

After twenty-odd years of working as a maid – living in someone else’s home, having no social life, inhaling all those fumes – Raquel has gone more than a little strange and become filled with petty, irrational jealousies; but when the bubbly Lucy is hired to assist her, she gradually manages to find her innate humanity, in Silva’s thoughtful, well acted, and thoroughly unpredictable parable. Iain.Stott