Plot & Summary
Among Latin Americans of any means at all, live-in domestic help is an everyday part of middle-class life, neither remarkable nor grand. This is crucial in understanding Argentinean director Jorge Gaggero's wonderful "Live-in Maid," which garnered the special jury prize at Sundance in 2005. The story of a housekeeper's final days in the home of her employer of 30 years. "Live-in Maid" explores the emotional side of the reality of two societies living in very close, often intimate, proximity without dwelling on the politics or resorting to polemic. It paints a lovely, intimate portrait of a complex relationship. Despite marked socioeconomic differences, on a macro level, everyone is in the same boat.The film stars Norma Aleandro as Beba Pujol, a divorced Buenos Aires bourgeoisie fallen on hard times, and Norma Argentina as Dora, her maid. The film takes place in the aftermath of yet another collapse of the Argentinean economy and devaluation of its currency, around 2001. When we first see Beba -- a not uncommon nickname that also means "baby girl" -- she is shamefacedly trying to hawk a porcelain teapot to an underwhelmed pawnbroker under the guise of doing an ill neighbor a favor. When she gets home, she is greeted by Dora, who asks Beba if she remembers what day it is. Of course, she does. It's payday. And there isn't a thing she can do about it ....
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