The Chambermaid's reviews
Media reviews
The Telegraph
"It is almost perfect (...) With the energy of a miniaturist, it captures the rhythms of a day?s work".
New York Times
"Our sense of exploitation and alienation is palpable, but the moments of beauty, tenderness and freedom that punctuate the drudgery provide flickers of humanity that feel almost miraculous".
El País
"Interesting debut film (...) The work of small physical gestures that end up defining personalities and environments (...) there is something fascinating in the struggle of this woman facing the impersonality of the human condition".
Variety
"Incredibly patient and empathetic film (...) a lesson likely to transform the way we perceive an entire category of our fellow humans".
The Guardian
"A film atmospheric sinister, emotional and disturbing (...) Cartol offers a convincing interpretation".
El Mundo
"A truly surprising jewel. Start this film by Lila Alvés with a shocking scene whose outcome it is better not to reveal".
El Periódico
"The building and the work as a metaphor for a pale social ascent, all of it with a visual perspective and supported by an excellent work by the leading actress, Gabriela Cartol".
The Hollywood Reporter
"Its security and sometimes suffocating intensity are its hallmarks (...) Its discreet, subtle and modest style makes it stay dramatically interesting".
Screen Daily
"Much of its power from the deliberate pacing and a certain wilful repetitiveness in the way Aviles shows us Eve?s daily grind".
Fotogramas
"It is an ontological function of cinema: to make visible the invisible (...) film, as modest as its heroine".
ABC
"Cartol fortunately (...) helps to cope with the monotony of a script that only aims to reflect the monotony of a life, which makes the film perhaps something valuable, but also scarcely amusing".