Live-In Maid

This Argentinean comedy centers on the tenuous friendship between a woman and her maid. Though the former aristocrat finds her finances dwindling, she holds onto her maid as proof she still belongs to the upper class in Buenos Aires.

“A film of startling insight and grace.” (Julia Wallace, Village Voice)

“LIVE-IN MAID, Jorge Gaggero's remarkably assured first film, examines the complicated relationship between an upper-class Buenos Aires woman and her housekeeper.” (A.O. Scott, New York Times)

“It's a wrenching, often painful comedy with its roots in Bergman and Bresson and Chekhov, as well as in the extremely unfunny condition of the Argentine economy. Not a shot or a sentence or a line is wasted.” (Andrew O’Hehir, salon.com)

“Weary and overworked to her very bones, Dora nevertheless has a heart of gold and a spine of steel. The movie does, too.” (Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News)

“First-time filmmaker Jorge Gaggero manages to distill a remarkable quantity of poetic gold and psychological truth from this simplest of set-ups, peeling away the shared history of these women with brief but telling snippets of information.” (Jan Stuart, Newsday)