La doncella virtuosa o el martirio de San Pedro

5/14/2026

Using an hybrid of two-dimensional, photographic cut-out style of animation and an increasingly provocative performance from Paulina Gálvez, we follow the antics of a maid who comes in each morning to tidy up her master's bedroom. What we also see - as does she - is an eye at the keyhole watching her toils. Gradually she realises that two can play games and so she begins to tease him - and not just to sate his desires, but to satisfy her own too. Fairly quickly she has ceased to carry out any duties, but continues to "entertain" her voyeur in a manner that borders on the very soft pornographic. The whole thing has the look of a smutty collage to it, and though the message is quite a subtly powerful one, the joke didn't land for me in the end and I actually felt slightly prurient watching i