The Second Mother (2015)
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Country: BRA
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Anna Muylaert
Cast: Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli
Synopsis:
Val, the live-in home help to a wealthy suburban family, is such a part of the family that the son goes to her for cuddles rather than his mother. This delicate social hierarchy is upset by the arrival of her daughter, who has come to São Paulo to sit her entrance exams.
Review:
Part of a growing number of Latin American home help movies, this stars national treasure Casé as a devoted servant who puts up with all manner of disrespect because 'she knows her place': she sleeps in cramped quarters without air conditioning, takes her meals in the kitchen, has never dipped in the pool. Her daughter, who has been brought up by her stepmother though with financial assistance from her mother, takes quite a different view and has a varied effect on the other members of the household. These themes are deployed for drama as well as comedy, though the film ends on a note of liberation. One absence, perhaps, is greater detail concerning the economic realities underpinning Val's existence.
(Que Horas Ela Volta?)
Country: BRA
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Anna Muylaert
Cast: Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli
Synopsis:
Val, the live-in home help to a wealthy suburban family, is such a part of the family that the son goes to her for cuddles rather than his mother. This delicate social hierarchy is upset by the arrival of her daughter, who has come to São Paulo to sit her entrance exams.
Review:
Part of a growing number of Latin American home help movies, this stars national treasure Casé as a devoted servant who puts up with all manner of disrespect because 'she knows her place': she sleeps in cramped quarters without air conditioning, takes her meals in the kitchen, has never dipped in the pool. Her daughter, who has been brought up by her stepmother though with financial assistance from her mother, takes quite a different view and has a varied effect on the other members of the household. These themes are deployed for drama as well as comedy, though the film ends on a note of liberation. One absence, perhaps, is greater detail concerning the economic realities underpinning Val's existence.
(Que Horas Ela Volta?)
Country: BRA
Technical: col/2.35:1 112m
Director: Anna Muylaert
Cast: Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli
Synopsis:
Val, the live-in home help to a wealthy suburban family, is such a part of the family that the son goes to her for cuddles rather than his mother. This delicate social hierarchy is upset by the arrival of her daughter, who has come to São Paulo to sit her entrance exams.
Review:
Part of a growing number of Latin American home help movies, this stars national treasure Casé as a devoted servant who puts up with all manner of disrespect because 'she knows her place': she sleeps in cramped quarters without air conditioning, takes her meals in the kitchen, has never dipped in the pool. Her daughter, who has been brought up by her stepmother though with financial assistance from her mother, takes quite a different view and has a varied effect on the other members of the household. These themes are deployed for drama as well as comedy, though the film ends on a note of liberation. One absence, perhaps, is greater detail concerning the economic realities underpinning Val's existence.