The Maid
She's almost part of the family.
She's almost part of the family.
Comedy, Drama
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2009
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Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
96 min
Release date:
13 Aug 2009
Country:
CL, MX, US
Languages:
Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
43 wins & 23 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
As played by Catalina Saavedra, she's a guarded, ruthless, but ultimately poignant character, and writer-director Sebastian Silva studies the levers of power inside the little household as if it were the Politburo.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
13 Mar 2014
fresh:
Deadpan, handheld technique allows director Sebastian Silva to mine mundane situations for subtle hazard but also to take his story in unexpected directions, initial reticence preserving the potential for surprise.
– Ben Walters,
Time Out,
26 Aug 2010
fresh:
As unlikable -- and unstable -- as the character is, Saavedra finds a way for the audience to care about Raquel deeply and even to root for her to come out on top with her childish evil plots.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
26 Feb 2010
fresh:
Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes unsettling, and always engrossing, The Maid is a domestic drama about the gulf that exists at impossibly close quarters between the worlds of upstairs and downstairs, the worlds of employer and household servant,
– Jonathan F. Richards,
Film.com,
15 Jan 2010
rotten:
Fun for a while but increasingly tedious...
– Tom Keogh,
Seattle Times,
3 Dec 2009