The Maid 2009 123movies

Watch: La nana 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – A drama centered on a maid trying to hold on to her position after having served a family for 23 years..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 6,124
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	82/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 66 Popularity: 6.313 | TMDB

Reviews:

Good Housekeeping
Sebastián Silva concocts a film that would have tickled Freud and Karl Marx too. Without much of a heavy hand, the perils of the class system create an unusual tension for modern American audiences. We see the “suffering” of a domestic worker, Raquel. But with the current controversy of Latin American domestic workers in the U.S. as well as North American movies audiences programmed to unhappy oddballs pulling out the automatic weapons to exact revenge expectations the film sets-up are not ever realized. This is a character study of a woman, played with convincing and unnerving power by Catalina Saavedra, who has no emotional life outside the family she serves. They don’t abuse her, but they have no understanding of her deep attachment to them, and we enter the story as things begin to fray.

Raquel is moody and has resorted to passive-aggressive behavior in dealing with the family. It’s her birthday and she won’t come into the party prepared for her because, she says, she’s embarrassed. In fact, she’s in control of everyone. It’s a natural outcome of long-time maladjusted servitude where domestics are privy to the most intimate knowledge of family life, often knowing “secrets” about one family member that others don’t know. But Raquel is near breaking because no one has ever considered her own emotional needs and unconsciously, she senses, “Life is short.” Sensing the need for some kind of change, the mother decides to employ a second domestic to “help” Raquel, and the stage is set for high drama. Raquel takes offense that she’s considered inadequate, but she too hasn’t a clue as to what’s ailing her. It takes several assistants before someone arrives and recognizes the needs that Raquel has been not only been deprived of, but also she’s deprived herself. This second maid, Lucy, played with terrific abandon by Mariana Loyola is the key to the film. Lucy is everything the rest of characters aren’t. She’s fulfilled and happy. She knows herself and if something’s lacking, she calls it out.

What’s surprising is the filmmaker trusts the characters and doesn’t pander to the audience’s need for farce or melodrama. A scene where a frustrated second maid is locked out of the house by Raquel and winds up climbing a trellis to reenter seems perfectly natural. And while the emotional “breakthoughs” that Raquel will or won’t make are modest, and there’s no overt revolution by the domestics here, the change in Raquel from the beginning of the film to the final scene is substantial and beautifully played by Saavedra. Whether American audiences can stick with the modest goals that Sebastián Silva sets up is questionable, but the charm he finds in such a bleak situation is rare and always enjoyable.

Bohemian saves jaded Chilean nanny
La Nana is a Chilean film about a live-in maid, Raquel, who has been with an upper middle-class family for over twenty years. When we’re first introduced to Raquel, the family is attempting to coax her out of the kitchen and into the dining room, so they can give her a birthday cake and a bunch of presents. She reluctantly joins the family but appears to be miserable and the dour expression on her face never seems to change. What’s more, Raquel suffers from migraines and dizzy spells, which makes her life extra miserable.

We soon learn that the mother in the family, Pilar, has hired other maids to work along side Raquel, but she wants nothing to do with them due to her conviction that they all are encroaching upon her ‘territory’. Pilar has a big heart and is truly devoted to Raquel who she considers part of the family. By the same token, Pilar is an enabler, as she looks the other way whenever Raquel acts poorly. In one such incident, Pilar discovers that Raquel has etched out her teenage daughter’s face in a bunch of photos Raquel keeps in a photo album. This indiscretion only results in a mild rebuke from the mother.

Pilar again becomes convinced that Raquel needs help with performing the household chores so she hires three different maids in rapid succession. The first one is Mercedes, a teenager from Peru, who Raquel treats extremely shabbily. Raquel sprays disinfectant in the bathroom whenever Mercedes is about to use it and subjects her to demeaning epithets about her Peruvian origin. Mercedes has volunteered to take care of a stray cat which the children have taken in, but Raquel flips it over the wall of the house and lets it escape. Raquel then keeps locking Mercedes out of the house until the young housekeeper quits.

At the behest of her own mother, Pilar now hires an older woman, Sonia, who has worked for her mother before. From the outset, Sonia makes it clear that she won’t take any b.s. from Raquel. Again, Raquel locks Sonia out of the house but Sonia climbs up to the roof and manages to get herself back in. Sonia attacks Raquel who flees and hides in a nearby closet. During the altercation, Sonia accidentally breaks a model ship which the father of the family has been working on for over a year. Sonia resigns but Raquel then passes out and the family members rush her to the hospital.

While recuperating, Pilar hires the third and final maid, Lucy, while Raquel remains bedridden. Fearing that her position might be jeopardized, Raquel forces herself to recuperate faster than she should, and informs Pilar she’s ready to work again. Just like before, she begins treating the new maid poorly but Lucy feels sorry for Raquel and showers her with affection. When Raquel locks her out of the house, Lucy takes off her blouse and sunbathes on the front lawn. This is the turning point as Raquel suddenly finds the sight of a half-naked Lucy hysterically funny and bursts out laughing. From then on, Raquel warms up to Lucy and accepts her invitation to visit her family at Christmas time.

While visiting Lucy’s family, Lucy’s uncle puts the moves on Raquel. At first, she welcomes him into her bed but decides not to have sex with him since she’s inexperienced. After returning to the family, Lucy eventually announces that she’s homesick and is leaving her job as a maid. Raquel is saddened by Lucy’s announcement but is not destroyed. Lucy’s influence is obvious in the final scene, as Raquel goes jogging for the first time (something that Lucy always liked to do).

La Nana is a simple tale with a theme of friendship and redemption. Raquel has become selfish and vindictive and it takes the warm-hearted Lucy to bring her out of her shell (Raquel’s sudden transformation from misanthrope to giving spirit wasn’t very believable but was satisfying since our protagonist needs to evolve in some measure).

La Nana offers little in terms of exploring the inner lives of its characters (we never get to know much about Raquel’s background except for tantalizing glimpses such as a cryptic conversation with her mother over the cell phone after she decides to leave Lucy’s family’s home). The emphasis here is more on the external arc of the story, mainly chronicling the misadventures of the various maids who have to put up with Raquel’s surly disposition.

La Nana features strong performances from each actor. I question the need for nudity (which include shots of bare breasts in the shower) since it does nothing to advance the verisimilitude of the film. Finally, La Nana is not what you would call a ‘psychologically dense’ film, but it should keep you fairly absorbed until the end.

Other Information:

Original Language es
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min), 1 hr 55 min (115 min) (European Film Market) (Germany), 1 hr 55 min (115 min) (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Sebastián Silva
Writer Sebastián Silva, Pedro Peirano
Actors Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola
Country N/A
Awards 34 wins & 23 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera DVCProHD
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm