A Decent Woman

In this exquisitely staged deadpan comedy in the vein of Jacques Tatí’s Mon oncle, a maid sent to work inside a gated community slowly becomes radicalized by a nudist resort next door. Belén, the wide-eyed and placid domestic, obediently tends to Diana, an overbearing socialite, and her sporty, temperamental adult son (hilariously referred to throughout only as “Juanchí”), and sparks a romance with a kind security guard. However, her curiosity leads her to visit the nudists, and she wholeheartedly embraces new understandings of sexuality and society. When the McMansion dwellers conspire to shut down their colony, violence erupts.