Maid, The2009

Director
Sebastián Silva

Acters

Catalina Saavedra (Raquel)
Claudia Celedón (Pilar)
Alejandro Goic (Mundo)
Andrea García-Huidobro (Camila)
Mariana Loyola (Lucy)
Agustín Silva (Lucas)

She’s more or less family.
Raquel has served as the maid for the Valdes family for over 23 years. She treats her employers, Pilar and Edmundo with the utmost loyalty and respect. She gets along well with their teenage son, Lucas, but clashes with their headstrong daughter, Camila. When Raquel begins to suffer dizzy spells, due to an excessive use of chlorine for household cleaning, Pilar decides to hire additional maids to assist Raquel in her everyday chores. The fiercely territorial Raquel resents this and engages in a series of increasingly desperate attempts to drive away maid after maid, including the younger Lucy, in order to maintain her position in the household.
“Silva gives the live-in at this excellent film’s center a complexity normally reserved for the masters.” – Howard Feinstein, Indiewire
“A tense, engrossing character study with a sometimes boldly repellent performance by Catalina Saavedra in the title role.” – Justin Chang, Variety
“Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes unsettling, and always engrossing.” – Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com