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The Maid (La Nana)
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A maid is a female domestic servant employed for housekeeping. The Maid may refer to: *''The Maid'', an Egyptian film starring Ashraf Fahmy * ''The Maid'' (1991 film), an American film * ''The Maid'' (2005 film), a Singaporean horror film * ''The Maid'' (2009 film), a Chilean comedy-drama film * ''The Maid'' (2020 film), a Thai horror film * "The Maid" (''Seinfeld''), an episode of the American sitcom ''Seinfeld'' *'' The Maid: A Novel'', a novel by Nita Prose The Maids may refer to: *''The Maids'' (''Les Bonnes''), a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet * ''The Maids'' (film), a film adaptation of the play of the same name See also * Maid (other) A maid is a female employed in domestic service. Maid, MAID or Maids may also refer to: * Maid (title), a title granted to the eldest daughter of a Scottish Laird * Maiden, a virginal woman * ''Maids'' (film), directed by Fernando Meirelles and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maid
A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids are now only found in the wealthiest households. In other parts of the world, maids remain common in urban middle-class households. "Maid" in Middle English meant an unmarried woman, especially a young one, or specifically a virgin. These meanings lived on in English until recent times (and are still familiar from literature and folk music), alongside the sense of the word as a type of servant. Description In the contemporary Western world, comparatively few households can afford live-in domestic help, usually relying on cleaners, employed directly or through an agency ( Maid service). Today a single maid may be the only domestic worker that upper-middle class households employ, as was historically the case. In less developed nations, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashraf Fahmy
Ashraf Fahmy (Arabic: أشرف فهمي 25 August 1936 – 25 January 2001) was an Egyptian film director, active in the Egyptian film industry since the late 1960s. He was credited with launching his career and directing his first feature film (The Killers – '' Arabic: القتلة'') starring the leading film star Salah Zulfikar making huge commercial success. Fahmy is a daring director frequently seen in film festivals worldwide, in addition he wrote the script of three films including (Until The End of Lifetime – '' Arabic: حتى آخر العمر ''), which is considered his most memorable movie. Early academic life Ashraf Fahmy earned a Bachelor degree of Arts (History major) from the Cairo University in 1961, then he graduated from the Egyptian High Cinema Institute in Giza (first class) in 1963 to start his career in the Egyptian cinema, after that he studied Directing at the University of California from 1964 until 1967. Starting as a director Fahmy worked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maid (1991 Film)
''The Maid'' is a 1990 made for TV film directed by Ian Toynton in which Anthony Wayne (Martin Sheen) goes to Paris for a new job and has a 30-day period before he starts work to get settled. Cast * Martin Sheen as Anthony Wayne * Jacqueline Bisset as Nicole Chantrelle * Victoria Shalet as Marie * Jean-Pierre Cassel as C. P. Olivier * James Faulkner as Laurent Leclair * Isabelle Guiard as Nicole's secretary * Dominic Gould Dominic Gould (born 19 September 1964) is a French and American actor. He was born in Los Angeles, United States. Filmography Film * '' Jeux d'artifices'' (1987) - Stan * '' Hôtel de France'' (1987) - Manu's Friend * ''Monsieur (1990) - Mo ... as Pierre Meyer External links * 1991 films Maids in films 1991 romantic comedy films American romantic comedy films Films directed by Ian Toynton 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{1990s-romantic-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maid (2005 Film)
''The Maid'' ( zh, 女佣) is a 2005 Singaporean horror film directed by Kelvin Tong, revolving around a maid who recently arrived in Singapore from the Philippines. She has to acclimate herself to the customs of the Singapore Ghost Festival, Seventh Month, during which she struggles with supernatural forces. The maid is employed by a Teochew people, Teochew Chinese opera, opera family with many secrets, who give her a place to stay in their dilapidated shophouse. The film broke the box office record in Singapore for the horror genre, making Singapore dollar, S$700,000 on its opening weekend. It won the European Fantastic Film Festival Federation (EFFFF) Asian Film Award at the 10th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). The EFFFF Asian Film Award is a prize awarded to the best Asian film of the year by the federation, of which PiFan is a supporting member. It starred Alessandra de Rossi, Hong Huifang, Benny Soh, Guan Zhenwei and Chen Shucheng. Plot The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maid (2009 Film)
''The Maid'' ( es, La Nana) is a 2009 comedy-drama film, directed by Sebastián Silva and co-written by Silva and Pedro Peirano. It has won numerous awards since its premiere at the 25th Annual Sundance Film Festival. The film has had much critical acclaim, particularly for Catalina Saavedra's award-winning performance as the lead character. Plot synopsis Raquel (Saavedra) has served as the maid for the Valdes family for over 23 years. She treats her employers, Pilar (Celedón) and Edmundo (Goic) with the utmost loyalty and respect. She gets along well with their teenage son, Lucas (Agustín Silva) but clashes with their headstrong daughter, Camila (García-Huidobro). When Raquel begins to suffer dizzy spells, due to an excessive use of chlorine for household cleaning, Pilar decides to hire additional maids to assist Raquel in her daily chores. The fiercely territorial Raquel resents this and engages in a series of increasingly desperate attempts to drive away maid after maid, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maid (2020 Film)
'' The Maid'' is a 2020 Thai supernatural slasher film directed by Lee Thongkham, written by Lee Thongkham and Piyaluk Tuntisrisakul starring Ploy Sornarin. The film was released on Netflix on 9 July 2020. Plot Joy (Ploy Sornarin) is hired as a housemaid by a wealthy family consisting of Uma (Savika Chaiyadej), Nirach (Theerapat Sajakul), and their only child and daughter, Nid (Keetapat Pongrue). Mrs. Wan (Natanee Sitthisaman), the head housemaid, reminds Joy not to pry into the affairs of their employers. Joy experiences odd occurrences around the house, and - ignoring Wan's warning - sneaks into Uma's study at night. She finds a photo of Uma, Nirach, and housemaid Ploy; Ploy is Joy's missing sister. The house is haunted by Ploy's ghost, and only Joy and Nid can see it. Joy learns of the circumstances surrounding Ploy's death from the ghost. Uma and Nirach have a loveless marriage, and each had a separate intimate relationship with Ploy. Ploy and Nirach had a child, Nid, causin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maid (Seinfeld)
"The Maid" is the 175th episode of the NBC sitcom '' Seinfeld''. This was the 19th episode of the ninth and final season. It aired on April 30, 1998. In this episode, Jerry hires a maid and ends up having a sexual relationship with her, George tries to get people to give him a good nickname, and Elaine falls into a chain of phone problems after Kramer subscribes her phone number to an incessant fax service. Plot Jerry hires a maid, Cindy, whom he then starts having sex with. On one visit Cindy leaves without getting around to any work, but still takes the money he left for her, which Jerry realizes could be considered prostitution. He stops leaving money for Cindy, and when she demands money on her next visit, he points out that she didn't do any work. Angered, she walks out on the job and the relationship. Cindy's boss Maxwell demands that Jerry pay Cindy for this last visit, threatening to publicly expose Jerry's fastidious cleaning requests and make Cindy pay for the visit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Novel
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maids
''The Maids'' (french: Les Bonnes, links=no) is a 1947 play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris in a production that opened on 17 April 1947, which Louis Jouvet directed. The play has been revived in France, England, and the United States on multiple occasions, sometimes with men playing the roles of the maids. A TV dramatization Stuepigerne was done by Danish national broadcaster Danmarks Radio in 1962. A film adaptation of the play was released in 1974. Swedish composer adapted the play in 1994 for a chamber opera. Background Genet loosely based his play on the infamous sisters Christine and Léa Papin, who brutally murdered their employer and her daughter in Le Mans, France, in 1933. In an introduction written for ''The Maids'', Jean-Paul Sartre quotes a line from Genet's novel '' Our Lady of the Flowers'' in which a character muses that if he had a play written for women he'd cast adolescent boys in the part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maids (film)
''The Maids'' (french: Les Bonnes) is a 1975 British film that was directed by Christopher Miles. It is based on the play of the same title by the French dramatist Jean Genet. The film stars Glenda Jackson as Solange, Susannah York as Claire, Vivien Merchant as Madame, and Mark Burns as Monsieur. The film was produced by Ely Landau for the American Film Theatre, which presented thirteen film adaptations of plays in the United States from 1973 to 1975. Plot Solange and Claire are two housemaids who construct elaborate sadomasochistic rituals when their mistress (Madame) is away. The focus of their role-playing is the murder of Madame, and they take turns portraying either side of the power divide. The deliberate pace and devotion to detail guarantees that they always fail to actualize their fantasies by ceremoniously "killing" Madame at the ritual's denouement. The plot of the film was popularly believed to have been inspired by the murders committed in 1933 by Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
