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Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.


“She's almost part of the family.”
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.

Catalina Saavedra
Raquel

Claudia Celedón
Pilar

Andrea García-Huidobro
Camila

Mariana Loyola
Lucy

Alejandro Goic
Mundo

Delfina Guzmán
Grandma

Anita Reeves
Sonia

Luis Dubó
Eric

Agustín Silva
Lucas
Juan Pablo Larenas
Rodrigo
The Maid is a drama, comedy film released in 2009 exploring themes of servant, dark comedy, employee, chile, domestic life, maid. Directed by Sebastián Silva, it stars Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Andrea García-Huidobro. Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
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