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The Maid

2009 · 96 min

A quiet, prickly character study that shifts from petty cruelty to unexpected tenderness, watching a closed-off woman slowly thaw.

Directed by
Sebastián Silva
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Tagline
She's almost part of the family.
Overview
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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Directed by
Sebastián Silva
Genres
Drama, Comedy
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Tone
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • class
  • family
  • identity
  • work
Places
  • single country house
  • suburbs
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
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Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism8
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, comedy
Directed by
Sebastián Silva
Written by
Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva
Starring
Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Andrea García-Huidobro, Mariana Loyola, Alejandro Goic, Delfina Guzmán, Anita Reeves, Luis Dubó
Cinematography
Sergio Armstrong
Runtime
96 min
Country
Chile, Mexico, United States of America
Languages
Spanish

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