The Housemaid (2025)

Plot of The Housemaid: Millie Calloway is a young woman with a past which we know has resulted in her being on parole and having to visit a parole officer. She has been sleeping in her car until unexpectedly she gets the job of live in maid for a family of husband, wife and daughter, the Winchesters. She finds that her bedroom, which is small with a single bed, can only be locked from the outside and that Nina, Mrs Winchester, is at the very least unstable. Nina habitually seems to give Millie instructions only later to deny having given them. This comes to  head when she tells Millie to book a surprise weekend for her and her husband with a show and a hotel stay. Millie does it, but Nina later denies having given the instruction and says the cost will be deducted from Millie’s wages. Nina goes away to visit her mother, and Andrew tells Millie not to worry and that he and she should take in the show and hotel. And then… The lights went up in the cinema and my wife and I joined others trying to get a taxi out of La Cañada the Marbella shopping mall, which was being shut down due to a weather alert. The Marbella authorities were not going to be caught out like those in Valencia. We were lucky to get a taxi because the police had shut down the facility without thinking about how those on foot would get out.

Content: Here I normally summarise what is going on and what the content of the film might be in terms of sex, drugs and violence. So up to the time of our departure from the cinema nothing seemed to have happened of any consequence other than Nina apparently being mad, but there was apparently more to come, the main theme of the film being abusive and controlling relationships. So more of that if you like that sort of thing.

A View: This film has been quite well thought of. I can only say that while I have been quite interested to see the second half of the film which I missed I did not want to see the first half again so I’ll wait until it comes out on our cable channel.

Fun Fact: This is the first time in my life that I have become part of the group of evacuees exiting a facility in a weather emergency