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The Second Mother
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
2015 · Directed by Anna Muylaert · 112 min · Drama · 9 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Anna Muylaert
- Cinematography: Bárbara Álvarez
- Edited by: Karen Harley
- Produced by: Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane, Débora Ivanov, Anna Muylaert
Cast
- Regina Casé as Val
- Camila Márdila as Jéssica
- Karine Teles as Bárbara
- Lourenço Mutarelli as Carlos
- Michel Joelsas as Fabinho
- Helena Albergaria as Edna
- Bete Dorgam as Janaína
- Luis Miranda as Antônio Jardineiro
- Theo Werneck as Vandré
- Luci Pereira as Raimunda
Production
- Country: Brazil
- Language: English, Portuguese
- Studios: África Filmes, Gullane Entretenimento, Globo Filmes
- Themes: parent child relationship, architecture, class differences, housekeeper, woman director
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