![]() ![]() ![]() Though technically a servant, Emerenc clearly doesn’t tolerate other people telling her what to do.īut the many contradictions in her character and the conflicts this generates with her station and complicated past are never convincingly drawn. ![]() The novel by Szabo, no relation of the director, is a cleverly constructed, partially autobiographical work that aims for a big emotional payoff as it slowly reveals why the no-nonsense Emerenc (Mirren), the working-class cleaner of well-off writer Magda (Gedeck), is so secretive about her past, lets no one into her modest home and has particularly outspoken views on life, politics, religion and people’s role in society. ![]()
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