ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

The Maid / La Nana Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Sebastián Silva, Country: Chile, Release: 2009, Runtime: 95 This sharply etched portrait of a tightly wound domestic servant and her passive-aggressive relationship to her middle-class family is given tremendous force and tragicomic relief in the remarkable, prizewinning lead performance by Catalina Saavedra. Somewhat intimidating to her mistress, barely recognized by the master, loved and feared by the children, her 23 years of live-in service have her believing that she’s part of the family, although her behavior belies her own powers of self-deception. Her resistance to change, however, is fierce and childlike, until another maid comes along to help her untie her inner knots and look outside the family plot. Skillfully upping the dramatic temperature through accumulated details until he lets loose in later scenes, Sebastián Silva’s impeccably directed sophomore feature is appropriately claustrophobic and terribly funny.

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