
A maid does the housework: she cleans the toilet, polishes the living room, makes dinner, does the laundry. In the meantime, she secretly desires the teenager of the house where she works. He doesn't even notice her presence. Accompanied by the routine that sees her days go by, the maid longs for the moment in which her luck will change.
Directed by Brian Jacobs, Animales Domésticos leans on a strong ensemble — Yiliana Chong, Sergio Gjurinovic, Stephie Jacobs — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about screen titles of 2009.
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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.
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