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The Maid (La nana)
The Maid (La nana)
Release Date
27 Aug 2010
27 Jan 2011
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Certificate:
15A
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Raquel has served as the live-in maid for the Valdes family for 23 years. Neither truly a member of the family nor simply a servant, she inhabits an undefined space somewhere in between. Threatened when the family decides to bring on extra help, she engages in a series of increasingly frantic acts to hold on to her position.
Cast:
Catalina Saavedra
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Claudia Celedón
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Alejandro Goic
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Andrea García-Huidobro
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Mariana Loyola
Writers:
Sebastián Silva
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Directors:
Sebastián Silva
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Having served the same family for 20 years, Raquel (Saavedra) has grown tired, and more than a little irritated, with her job. And she's happy to take it out on Camila (Garcia-Huidobro), the eldest of Pilar (Celedon) and Mundo's (Goic) four children. The family decide that Raquel might be happy to have an assistant; she sees it as a threat, and proceeds to drive each new arrival out of the home. Until she drives herself into hospital. Once home, new arrival Lucy (Loyola) is a bright light that not even Raquel can dim, and the loneliness of the long-distance house servant might just be coming to an end.
THE VERDICT: A film all about when the help really needs some help, The Maid is a curious and compelling little film. And a Sundance winner to boot. Small but perfectly formed, Sebastian Silva's addition to a rich Latin American subject matter for filmmakers is a bittersweet but ultimately touching affair. Catalina Saavedra takes much of the credit for that...
Review By Paul Byrne
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