The scene sets up the exploration of issues of class and motherhood by Brazilian director Anna Muylaert in her film The Second Mother.
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The film - this year's Academy Awards submission from Brazil - follows Val, a live-in maid from the Northeast working for a wealthy family in São Paulo.
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Regina Case shines in Anna Muylaert's warm character study of a live-in maid and her estranged daughter in Sao Paulo.
The second mother in Muylaert's film is Val (a very good Regina Casé), a middle-aged housekeeper who keeps everyone on track in the home of an affluent Sao ...
The film shows the importance of waking up to reality and actually discussing the problems in plain view.
Touching, funny, perceptive and simple enough to carry large audiences, The Second Mother is carried throughout by a hilarious, intelligent and ...
The film points out those hypocrisies in a well defined, lightly comedic and dramatically satisfying way. Writer/director Anna Muylaert knows how to play all ...
The Second Mother is a wonderful Brazilian comedy of — what, precisely? Manners? Ill manners? Or no-manners-are-sometimes-the-right-manners?
“The Second Mother” quietly unravels its drama through ordinary happenings and the muted thunderclap of clashing personalities. Once Jessica ...
Brazilian writer-director Anna Muylaert takes a lighter touch in her thoroughly amusing fourth feature, The Second Mother (Que horas ela volta?)