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The Chambermaid uses one woman's experiences to take audiences inside a life -- and a culture -- that's as bracingly unique as it is hauntingly relatable. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

A young chambermaid working in one of the most luxurious hotels in Mexico City enrolls in the hotel's adult education program to help improve her life.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Spanish
Director:

Lila Avilés
Producer:

Lila Avilés, Tatiana Graullera
Writer:

Lila Avilés, Juan Carlos Marquéz
Release Date (Theaters):

Jun 26, 2019 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 18, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA):

$15.9K
Runtime:

1h 42m
Production Co:

La Panda
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Gabriela Cartol
Eve

Teresa Sánchez
Minitoy

Lila Avilés
Director

Lila Avilés
Screenwriter

Juan Carlos Marquéz
Screenwriter

Lila Avilés
Producer

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Critic Reviews for The Chambermaid

All Critics (70) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (1)

[An] engrossing narrative feature debut by actor-turned-director Lila Avilés.

March 17, 2020 | Full Review…

Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
How the film counters its protagonist's ambitions makes for an alternately bleak and reverent experience, leaving us with an understanding of what "women's work" really means.

February 25, 2020 | Full Review…

Roxana Hadadi
AWFJ Women on Film
This is a very quiet and understated observational drama. It's not just quiet, but patient... It's also very compassionate.

October 1, 2019 | Full Review…

Claudia Puig
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
This is brilliantly confident film-making.

July 29, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Simran Hans
Observer (UK)
This wry, delicately austere debut from Mexican theatre director Lila Avilés goes one step further. To quote a famous TV sitcom line: "I don't speak maid." With Avilés's help, we're taught a new language.

July 26, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Charlotte O'Sullivan
London Evening Standard
No trace of the literary or theatrical remains in Avilés's long takes and snatched, blank dialogue. The picture wraps a whole world around us.

July 26, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Donald Clarke
Irish Times
Thanks to the efforts of writer/director Lila Aviles, it makes its fair share of points without spelling them out for the audience which makes it all the more admirable.

September 25, 2020 | Full Review…

Matthew St. Clair
Cinema Sentries
A solvent portrait of the lengths we go to in producing capital. [Full Review in Spanish]

September 7, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Paula Arantzazu Ruiz
Sensacine
Subtle, intimate and very captivating. [Full review in Spanish]

July 28, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Yasser Medina
Cinemaficionados
There is something fascinating in the struggle of this woman faced with the impersonality of the human condition. [Full Review in Spanish]

March 14, 2020 | Full Review…

Javier Ocaña
El Pais (Spain)
A transcendent film. [Full review in Spanish]

March 12, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Laura Hiros
Diario La Estrella (Fort Worth, TX)
The lack of any social theme for the purposes of vulgar didactism maintains one's interest in The Chambermaid. [Full review in Spanish]

March 10, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Miguel Martín Maestro
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