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.
Acting
Catalina Saavedra's face does more storytelling than most scripts.
Direction
Silva turns a Santiago mansion into a pressure cooker of micro-aggressions.
Writing
Every character thinks they're the reasonable one. They're not.
Director
Sebastián Silva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in director Sebastián Silva's actual family home with his real mother playing the matriarch. The uncomfortable intimacy is documentary-level real.
Catalina Saavedra won Sundance's Special Jury Prize for this—she was a complete unknown who Silva found working as a housekeeper. The meta layers never stop.
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