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90Pitch-perfect social comedy.
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The result is a film of startling insight and grace.
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90What Live-in Maid offers is a pitch-perfect observation of life on a continent where forms are adhered to, distances aren't really kept, and your best friend is the person who knows to pour the cheap domestic whiskey into the empty bottle of imported stuff before your bridge buddies show up to judge you.
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83Live-In Maid is a lived-in movie. Its cataclysms may be small in scale, but the movie brings us so far into these women's lives that a shattered cup creates an earthquake.
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80Powered by two first-rate performances, Jorge Gaggero's debut feature is full of psychological nuance and keen social observation.
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80Modest in scope, but it feels complete, fully inhabited, in a way that more overtly ambitious movies rarely do.
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80A vivid portrait of a society in the midst of wrenching change, but it transcends its immediate context to become a thoughtful, even unforgettable, chamber piece, performed with exquisite subtlety by two fine actresses.
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75Weary and overworked to her very bones, Dora nevertheless has a heart of gold and a spine of steel. The movie does, too.
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75Low-key yet has a lot to say about class struggle.
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A modest chamber piece enriched by its affecting human harmonies and overtones.
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75Quite easily Live-in Maid could have descended into a kind of Joan Crawford-Bette Davis gorgon salute. But everyone here seems way too smart for that, though apparently the movie is being prepped for an English-language version. So beware.
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70A fairly successful attempt at satire, though given the subject, there's a lot of darkness under the carpet.
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70A fine Argentinean film with English subtitles.
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67Live-In Maid's premise would be ideal for a play, or a bravura performance piece like Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant."
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HughR9A great dark-social comedy with an illuminated soul and powerful actresses.
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annetteg10exquisite insights into the hearts of two women who, despite social and economic pressures, deeply understand each other's fight to survive.