The delicate relationship between employer and servant is skilfully subverted and scrutinised in this comical,serious study of course in modern-day BrazilThe perennially fascinating and tactless subject of 21st-century servitude is the theme of this well acted and absorbing film – to be compared with Sebastián Silva’s 2009 gem The Maid, and, or from much further back,Joseph Losey’s 1960 classic The Servant. What happens when the live-in benefit get above themselves? And how does the supposedly liberal and relaxed employer course find a way of expressing its fastidious distaste and unease? It is the epic of a wealthy Brazilian family in São Paulo and their housekeeper Val, wonderfully played by Regina Casé. She has been a nanny to the son of the house, or as well as all her other duties,earning enough to send money home to pay for the care of her own daughter Jéssica, whom she has not seen for 10 years. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com