Sunday 17th November 5:00 PM - Alhambra
The Chambermaid
(La camarista)
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Director: Lila Avilés Country: MexicoCert: 15 Year: 2018 Length: 102 minsLanguage: Spanish
Autumn 2019
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Score: 52.86% Attendance: 135
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Synopsis
A film about one woman's fight to get to the top; in this case literally as well as figuratively as promotion means cleaning the floor above in this Mexican hotel.
"For the time being, however, Eve has a world of grindingly hard work. She has to leave her young son behind in the care of a neighbour, and has to get up even earlier in the morning than everyone else because she is also going to adult education classes" - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.
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This is brilliantly confident film-making. Avilés does not need to leave the building to examine class tensions and cultural misunderstandings, weaving her critique through the hotel's denizens
Simran Hans, Guardian
It's a fabulous piece of cinema
Nigel Andrews, Ft
After you've seen it, the world looks different.
A.o. Scott, New York Times
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