THE CHAMBERMAID / LA CAMARISTA / ГОРНИЧНАЯ / LA CAMARISTA

MEXICO
2018, 102 MIN.
Director Lila Avilés
Script Lila Avilés, Juan Carlos Marquéz
Camera Carlos Rossini
Design Vika Fleita
Cast: Gabriela Cartol, Teresa Sánchez
Producers Lila Avilés, Tatiana Graullera, Axel Shalson, Jana Diaz-Juhl, Pau Brunet
Production Limerencia, FOPROCINE México, Bad Boy Billy Production, Bambú Audiovisual, L A Panda Productions

Eve is a young chambermaid working in one of the most luxurious hotels in Mexico City, an exclusive glass tower inhabited by guests so wealthy she can only imagine their lives through intimate fantasies of the belongings they’ve left behind. Long, laborious shifts prevent Eve from caring for her child while she helps guests with their own children, but she believes her situation will improve if she gets promoted to work at executive-level suites, for which she accepts a grueling schedule. In keeping with this goal, she also enrolls in the hotel’s adult education program. An incipient friendship with her coworker and an awkward, silent flirtation with an inaccessible window-washer prod her toward much needed bravery. When things don’t result as planned, Eve transforms her lonely explorations and newfound courage into the necessary strength to face a life outside the glimmering tower.

LILA AVILÉS

She studied direction and performing arts with some of the leading theatrical figures in México such as Martin Acosta, Sandra Felix and Juliana Faesler. She also studied film writing with Beatriz Novaro and Paula Marcovich. After her beginnings as a theater actress she moved into directing. Her work as a director includes “Gardenia Club”, “Microdermoabrasión” (National Theater Award), “Antígona” and “The Chambermaid” – that would become the inspiration for her first feature film. She has also directed the operas “Cosi Fan Tutte” and “Alcina” by Mozart and Händel respectively.