Affetti & Dispetti (La Nana)

The film serves as an eye-opening portrait. From a young Chilean filmmaker, it leaves you off balance, in the best possible way.

Every once in awhile -- not often, but it happens -- a film appears out of nowhere that doesn't go where you expect it to go or do what you expect it to do. "The Maid" has that particular gift of leaving you off balance in the best possible way, and whenever something like that comes around you owe it to yourself to check it out. To be honest, "The Maid" doesn't exactly come out of nowhere. It got two nominations, including best feature, at the Gotham Independent Film Awards earlier this week, and two key awards at Sundance: the jury award for world drama (besting "An Education" in the process) and a special jury prize for actress Catalina Saavedra's phenomenal starring performance. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4611 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 23 ottobre 2009