Old Cats

With his breakthrough 2009 feature, The Maid, Chilean director Sebastián Silva demonstrated a knack for deadpan one-upmanship and class dissections. If his follow-up (codirected and cowritten with Pedro Peirano) never quite hits its satirical bull’s-eyes with the same force, the familial farce doesn’t exactly scream slump either. But Old Cats does suggest that the young filmmaker needs something more substantial than gold-digging, coke-snorting girlfriends or an elderly mother descending into senility to bring out his best.