The Second Mother

The Second Mother (2015)

Que Horas Ela Volta?

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.

Date of release
2015-06-04
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (806)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Drama
Director
Anna Muylaert

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $3M
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award

The Second Mother 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.

Production

Muylaert originally envisioned it before the release of her first feature film, Durval Discos (2002), but she felt she was not capable of directing it at the time. Originally titled A Porta da Cozinha (The Kitchen Door), it was based on Muylaert's own experience with a nanny, who took care of Muylaert's son after leaving her own daughter.

The main filming location of The Second Mother, shot in February 2014, was a mansion in Morumbi, an affluent neighborhood of São Paulo.

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