The Second Mother

Movie

2015

1h 52m

Portuguese

Drama

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The Second Mother

Movie

2015

1h 52m

Portuguese

Drama

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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.

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Cast

Val

Jéssica

Bárbara

Carlos

Fabinho

Edna

Janaína

Antônio Jardineiro

Vandré

Raimunda

Diléia

Peruano

Repórter

Caveira

Fabinho (Criança)

Pâmela

Anita

Directed By: Anna Muylaert

Written By: Anna Muylaert (Screenplay)

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Redsdm says...

9 years ago

Uma das melhores produções aqui do Brasil nos últimos 7 ou 8 anos, com a enxurrada de comédia sem graça da Globo entupindo a cota de filme nacional no cinema fica difícil o acesso a filmes de autor para o grande público...

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oandrevictor says...

9 years ago

It's not only beautiful but painfully/uncomfortably real.

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vlribeiro says...

9 years ago

Such an amazing and delicate movie. I was touched by the acting and this amazing script.

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nicpaesk says...

11 months ago

I have a very hard time finding brazilian movies that do not have this forced telenovela acting, and this one disappointed me in this regard too. A part from it, the characters do not act realistically at all, so it feels like it's been written for a highschool play.

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Reno

6 years ago

> A close look at generation and professional gap.

Have I really watched a South American movie! This is not a doubt over the culture or the language the movie was rendered, but the basic plot was universally appealing. Wherever from you are, this story will look very familiar, you know the maste More

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