La Nana (The Maid) Chilean film 2009 A superior "home movie" in every sense. Painful! Painful... for outsiders who don't want to see families singing several separate "Happy Birthdays", even in Spanish; or to suffer the spectacle of spoilt children, or of a harrowed, neurotic aging house-servant (in an admittedly virtuoso performance of prolonged misery by Catalina Saavedra).
Only the mother of the family is given a sustained characterisation; father and children generally obnoxious, and shallowly portrayed. Even the framing and sequence of indoor shots is a trial for the spectator. Painful. Might increase one's sympathy for domestic servants, but is early-morning jogging (the long closing shot) really the answer?
Only the mother of the family is given a sustained characterisation; father and children generally obnoxious, and shallowly portrayed. Even the framing and sequence of indoor shots is a trial for the spectator. Painful. Might increase one's sympathy for domestic servants, but is early-morning jogging (the long closing shot) really the answer?