The Second Mother

+ intro by Cine Brazil

Que Horas Ela Volta?

A funny, piercing look at class and care inside a privileged São Paulo household.

  • Director

    Anna Muylaert

  • With

    Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles

  • Brazil 2015. 112min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

A live-in housekeeper’s routine is upended when her independent daughter arrives at her employers’ home. Muylaert employs domestic space to expose Brazil’s class hierarchies with precision and humour, using small gestures to carry big shocks. Warm yet incisive, it is a defining portrait of contemporary inequality and aspiration.

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