Also the work by girls, directed by Anna Muylaert, Director of success at house and played by some of the profitable actresses of her nation, is a comedy about the social differences that dictate strict rules of habits, accepted as immutable legal guidelines of nature by the individuals a sure age. Val is a handyman housekeeper, in the service of a wealthy household in Sao Paulo. It's from the Northeast, the region just as poor however stunning nation, the place he left in the care of her father and his new girlfriend just a little daughter.
While creating the theme of the class wrestle, and the caretakers and servants analogously to filmescomo Nano, By way of Park or The ceremony, speaking a second mom does not finish there. Nor is identical sensitivity when approaching these characters: Brazil is a huge country that's self-enough in the social, cultural and audiovisual field in considerably remoted to the remainder of South America, as I not too long ago confessed the director herself photograph of this movie, the Uruguayan Barbara Alvarez. If something, the complex and the green of the human portrait can raise awareness of the viewer at odds with Ann Hui film, and his film A Easy Life.
Nevertheless, a tingling excitement builds. You'll be able to feel progressively that Val so absorbed in her job as a result of she fights with a living lie. For over ten years she has her daughter not seen that she left after an argument along with her husband at a friend in northern Brazil. But now Jéssica (Camila Márdila) refers stunning quarters along with her mother to enroll at an elite university. Fairly naturally Val expects her daughter, that they face the hosts so submissive behaves like it. However Jessica refuses this recreation and so triggers a pleasurable staged chain reaction. While the householder and his son fall in love with Jessica, who mistress begins a cat fight against the self-confident competitor.
The life of an inside employee of a excessive bourgeois house, is disrupted by the go to of his daughter to study for the entrance examination to college. So simple as can be summarized the plot of a second mother, a narrative very nicely portrayed on how often the service is who takes care of our family and not us. That is the toughest a part of the tape, the one the place it seems like the household does not care for their very own, but in case you pay attention to outsiders. The story, regardless of having comic particulars, tends a lot drama, and infrequently stunning conditions as not to fall into the straightforward morbidity are handled. This relationship between the pinnacle of the household and the daughter of the maid is handled with impeccable respect, bordering the agony and disappointment that comedy that gives rise to the situation.
