Kino Lorber | Release Date: June 26, 2019
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alejandro970Aug 11, 2019
La vida secreta de los empleados "invisibles" de un hotel. Narrado en un tono casi documental sin score musical, sigue la rutina diaria de una camarera y su ocasional interacción con sus compañeros y los huéspedes. Una que no hay que perderLa vida secreta de los empleados "invisibles" de un hotel. Narrado en un tono casi documental sin score musical, sigue la rutina diaria de una camarera y su ocasional interacción con sus compañeros y los huéspedes. Una que no hay que perder de vista, a pesar del ritmo pausado que puede exasperar al espectador sediento de acción. Expand
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katezoeNov 7, 2019
Wonderful film about a chambermaid at a luxury hotel in Mexico City. Acting is superb. The film is a meditation on life and what we can make of it.
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AnanisaptaDec 28, 2019
"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away..."
-Emily Dickinson
If you understand those lines, you will appreciate this thoughtful, gentle look at a young woman's life that has its share of pathos and missed chances and hope and
"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away..."
-Emily Dickinson

If you understand those lines, you will appreciate this thoughtful, gentle look at a young woman's life that has its share of pathos and missed chances and hope and endurance. You'll never look at 'housekeeping' the same.
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JLuis_001Jul 11, 2022
The Chambermaid 2018 ★★★
Watched Jul 05, 2022
Luis_989’s review published on Letterboxd: 65/100 The Chambermaid encapsulates its main character's experience in a single place that exemplifies her loneliness, her struggle and the grueling
The Chambermaid 2018 ★★★
Watched Jul 05, 2022

Luis_989’s review published on Letterboxd:
65/100

The Chambermaid encapsulates its main character's experience in a single place that exemplifies her loneliness, her struggle and the grueling routine of a working woman like herself.

Does being treated like an invisible being make you one?

This is a portrait of the thankless and underpaid job of a chambermaid. Compared at the time to Alfonso Cuaron's Roma, but they couldn't be any more different.

The Chambermaid is more focused on her character's experience rather than trying to make any kind of social commentary, after all, even if it did, the script doesn't offer any kind of development for it.

How interesting it will be for the viewer to watch the character's mundane tasks will depend very much on each viewer attention span. After all, the character's hope is to advance in her employment, but that's just a hope that fuels another dull day's work.
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