The Second Mother (2015)

Original title

Que Horas Ela Volta?

Directed by

Anna Muylaert

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

AA

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 787 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A housemaid in Sao Paulo lives with a wealthy family. Her daughter moves in to take a university entrance exam. Their presence unsettles the household's old social rules.

poignantobservationalquietly tensecharacter-drivenbittersweetclass-awarehonestthoughtful

What happens

The Second Mother (Portuguese: Que Horas Ela Volta?, lit. 'When Is She Coming Back?') is a 2015 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Anna Muylaert. The film stars Regina Casé as Val, the housemaid of a wealthy family in São Paulo, and portrays the tensions that arise after her daughter Jéssica moves into the family's house in order to apply for an admission exam at the University of São Paulo. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was later released theatrically in Brazil on 27 August 2015. It received critical praise in and outside Brazil and was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association aka Abraccine voted The Second Mother the 71st greatest Brazilian film of all time, in its list of the 100 best Brazilian films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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