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Live-In Maid is an insightful character piece with standout performances and a poignant slice of Argentina life.
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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. Oct 19, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
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.
Bill Stamets
[A] simply told, but emotionally robust movie. Oct 19, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
[A] simply told, but emotionally robust movie.
Wesley Morris
It paints a lovely, intimate portrait of a complex relationship and shows a side of Latin American life we rarely see on American screens. Oct 18, 2007 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
It paints a lovely, intimate portrait of a complex relationship and shows a side of Latin American life we rarely see on American screens.
Carina Chocano
A vivid portrait of a society in the midst of wrenching change, but it transcends its immediate context to become a thoughtful, even unforgettable, chamber piece, performed with exquisite subtlety by two fine actresses. Sep 20, 2007 | Full Review…
A vivid portrait of a society in the midst of wrenching change, but it transcends its immediate context to become a thoughtful, even unforgettable, chamber piece, performed with exquisite subtlety by two fine actresses.
Ann Hornaday
Live-In Maid is a modest chamber piece enriched by its affecting human harmonies and overtones. Aug 31, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Live-In Maid is a modest chamber piece enriched by its affecting human harmonies and overtones.
Steven Winn
Even if I knew how things turned out in Live-In Maid, a fine Argentinean film with English subtitles, I wouldn't give away the ending. Aug 30, 2007 | Full Review…
Even if I knew how things turned out in Live-In Maid, a fine Argentinean film with English subtitles, I wouldn't give away the ending.
Joe Morgenstern
Incisive study of class relationships between a pauperized would-be aristocratic woman and the maid who is increasingly ready to break free. Dec 14, 2007 | Full Review…
Incisive study of class relationships between a pauperized would-be aristocratic woman and the maid who is increasingly ready to break free.
Louis Proyect
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. Oct 14, 2007 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
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.
Laura Clifford
As a character study it carries a quiet, almost serene dramatic power as well as a strong current of dark humor. Sep 24, 2007 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
As a character study it carries a quiet, almost serene dramatic power as well as a strong current of dark humor.
Frank Swietek
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. Sep 21, 2007 | Rating: B+
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.
Michael Sragow
Writer/director Jorge Gagggero has made a sensitive and lovely portrayal of two women. Sep 15, 2007 | Full Review…
Writer/director Jorge Gagggero has made a sensitive and lovely portrayal of two women.
Jean Lowerison
It's a small movie but a smartly detailed one. Sep 13, 2007 | Rating: 3/4
It's a small movie but a smartly detailed one.
Chris Hewitt
Poignant and masterful, Live-In Maid is an involving unorthodox presentation of the averse relationship, more appropriately, friendship, of an imperious bourgeois and a taciturn domestic attendant. Emotionally complex and ambiguous, Live-In Maid is transcendental of social class, precisely aware of the situation and disposition of the bourgeoisie in the times of economic recession and profoundly acquainted with the vicissitudes and realities of life. Emphatic.
Super Reviewer
A well crafted film study of declining social status and precarious friendships. Understated and subtle but brilliantly presented.
[font=Century Gothic]"Live-in Maid" is set around the financial crisis that crippled the Argentinian economy in 2001. Beba(Norma Aleandro) has not been able to pay her maid, Dora(Norma Argnentina), for the past several months. Beba is currently trying to sell cosmetics, as she desperately tries to hold onto her dignity and pride but they are fading fast. Dora has worked for Beba's family for the past 28 years but is getting frustrated at the lack of money since she would like her significant other, Miguel(Raul Panguinao), to pave the floor of his house.[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Live-in Maid" is a low-key observation on the nature of class in society. Beba and Dora come from very different backgrounds but in the film they both have something in common - a lack of money. At first, I would say the two women share a symbiotic relationship but could they actually be friends?[/font]
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