[FA Worldmusic] Cinema Tropical Premiere Series: "Live-In Maid"/ "Cama Adentro" Opens Today in NYC

[Evangeline Kim]

I have seen the new film and it's simply beautiful. Directed by Jorge Gaggaro
and starring Norma Aleandro, it opens today at the Film Forum, running only
until July 31st, so whenever it comes to your city, it's a must-see.

One aspect that struck me was the music.  There is a cumbia dance scene and
also a song by Cafe Tacuba.  Amazing how the music has the capacity to elicit
feelings of elation and to inject a sense of buoyancy in the quietly subtle
film

The NY Times has given the film 2 rave reviews.  Here's a snippet:

Norma Aleandro, the grande dame of Argentine cinema (think Meryl Streep
crossed with Penelope Cruz), plays Beba, a still-elegant haute-bourgeois
divorcee, living in a fashionable Buenos Aires apartment, surrounded by a
lifetime of consumer goods, but with too little cash to stay afloat. Dora,
Beba's maid for 30 years, massages her feet, freshen her drinks and listens to
her complain. When Dora makes moves to abandon this sinking ship, the two
begin "their tango of class resentment and unacknowledged dependency with
consummate subtlety and grace. Those words also apply to Mr. Gaggero's
direction, which is breathtakingly understated...The rooms and hallways of
Beba's apartment...seem to resonate with unspoken emotions  love, loyalty,
regret, spite  that achieve a poignant, comical clarity precisely because
they are never expressed... (The movie is) modest in scope but large in spirit
and ambition, and very nearly perfect in execution."  A. O. Scott, The New
York Times.

Best,
Evangeline