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From: andrew cooke <andrew@...>

Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:11:06 -0400

Pauli + I went to see this a few weeks ago - the producer is a friend
of a friend.  It's a surprisingly good film - not just "good for
Chile", but "good" (no qualifications) - that centres on the life of a
Chilean maid (nana).  At first we assumed it was going to be a simple
attack on the whole institution / system of privilege / inequality
that exists here, but it was refreshingly not.  The main theme is a
much more powerful one of love and redemption (as a result the
secondary theme of social injustice becomes much stronger).

There's a comment with some background here -
http://www.ioncinema.com/news/id/3911 - but the link to a clip has
gone.  A search of youtube -
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=la+nana&search_type=&aq=f
- turns up alternatives, currently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuB6xQ535Y0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zahCX_w7LiY (trailer)

(and I should add it's won prizes in Lima and at Sundance).

Andrew