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A deluxe Mexico City resort seems like an upscale jail for Eve, a chambermaid whose days are full of making beds, cleansing loos, and operating interference for a panoply of company demanding particular consideration. A fiction movie that feels uncomfortably actual, THE CHAMBERMAID posits Eve’s disciplined schedule – starting her day at Four a.m. and ending it with a category to meet a highschool diploma – with the company’ capricious whims. Lila Avilés’s movie takes its inspiration from French artist Sophie Calle’s artwork venture, The Hotel, by which she labored as a chambermaid and photographed objects left behind. Minimal and hyper-realistic, the movie leaves the viewer with hope that Eve is not going to herself grow to be mere detritus.

MEXICO    2018   102 MINS.   IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES   KINO LORBER

Reviews

“Approaching the subject with a documentary sense of realism, director Lila Aviles keeps a light touch… For much of its running time, The Chambermaid operates as a subtle study of inequality, but what emerges before our eyes is a character study free of pretense… (The film) offers a sometimes funny and playful look into the inner life of Eve; nuanced and natural, it has a quiet and modest power as it comments on the ironies of contemporary cities like Mexico City and their growing economic divide.”
– John Fink, The Film Stage

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