Writer-director Gaggero shoots for a kind of docu-realism, with a few overtly cinematic interludes, like one well-paced split-screen sequence.
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07/21/07
Live-In Maid (2004)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:31
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Live-In Maid is an insightful character piece with standout performances and a poignant slice of Argentina life.
Theatrical Release:Jul 18, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: This Argentinean comedy centers on the tenuous friendship between a woman and her maid. Though the former aristocrat finds her finances dwindling, she holds onto her maid as proof she still belongs... [More]
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Reviews for Live-In Maid
If you care about the art of movie acting, run to the Charles to see Norma Aleandro bring tragicomic stature to the role of a haute bourgeois Buenos Aires woman fallen on hard times in Live-In Maid.
09/21/07
[A] simply told, but emotionally robust movie.
10/19/07
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04/23/09
Gaggero not only draws out such nuances from the two women but illustrates the complexities of their friendship with carefully constructed cinematography.
09/08/07
Live-in Maid is a study of two women who appear not to like each other very much, yet their link makes for a moving drama about friendship.
10/19/07
This is a very special film.
07/20/07
Dora and Beba both seem like real people, independent women who struggle to hide how dependent they really are.
07/21/07
Gaggero's vision is gentle and optimistic and, like all things which come upon us slowly and gracefully, it possesses an undeniable verisimilitude.
07/19/07
An unexpectly affectionate study of friendship between two very different Argentinian women who come from two different social classes.
07/21/07
The small, well-acted chamber drama is a genre that has virtually disappeared from American screens, which is too bad when you see one as accomplished as Live-in Maid.
07/18/07
It paints a lovely, intimate portrait of a complex relationship and shows a side of Latin American life we rarely see on American screens.
10/18/07
Top CriticWeary and overworked to her very bones, Dora nevertheless has a heart of gold and a spine of steel. The movie does, too.
07/20/07
They [Aleandro and Argentina] take what could be clichéd characters and turn them into living, breathing people that viewers can care about.
07/20/07
Live-In Maid, Jorge Gaggero's remarkably assured first film, examines the complicated relationship between an upper-class Buenos Aires woman and her housekeeper.
07/18/07
Top CriticFirst-time filmmaker Jorge Gaggero manages to distill a remarkable quantity of poetic gold and psychological truth from this simplest of set-ups, peeling away the shared history of these women with brief but telling snippets of information.
07/19/07
Top CriticAs a character study it carries a quiet, almost serene dramatic power as well as a strong current of dark humor.
09/24/07
Incisive study of class relationships between a pauperized would-be aristocratic woman and the maid who is increasingly ready to break free.
12/14/07
From the rooms and spaces which house the two women to the slow unraveling of their history together, Live In Maid is a wonder of economic storytelling.
10/14/07
...it's a wrenching, often painful comedy with its roots in Bergman and Bresson and Chekhov, as well as in the extremely unfunny condition of the Argentine economy. Not a shot or a sentence or a line is wasted.
07/19/07
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