Cotton Mary (1999)
- Directed by
- Madhur Jaffrey, Ismail Merchant
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom, France
- Runtime
- 2h 04m
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
A British woman struggling to feed her newborn baby hires a former Indian nurse as a nanny. The nurse becomes deeply involved in the household, while the husband pursues an affair with the nurse's niece. The story focuses on the shifting relationships and tensions between these characters.
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What happens
Cotton Mary is a 1999 film co-directed by Ismail Merchant, best known as the producer half of Merchant Ivory, and the Indian actress and writer Madhur Jaffrey, who also co-starred. Most of story is about of the changes in the characters of Cotton Mary, a former hospital nurse, and her new employer, Lilly MacIntosh, as Mrs. MacIntosh deals with her inability to breastfeed her baby and employs Mary as a nanny. There is a subtext of Lilly's husband having an affair with Mary's niece who was a former co-worker at the hospital where Mary had worked. The film was shot in coastal South India. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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