Que Horas Ela Volta?
- Drama
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.
The Second Mother is a 2015 Brazilian drama about Val, a live-in nanny in São Paulo who reunites with her estranged daughter Jessica after 13 years apart. When Jessica arrives as her mother approaches a turning point in her employer's family, their relationship forces a reckoning with class divides and motherhood. The film explores how the next generation challenges entrenched social hierarchies.
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Regina CaséVal
Camila MárdilaJéssica
Karine TelesBárbara
Lourenço MutarelliCarlos
Michel JoelsasFabinho
Helena AlbergariaEdna
Bete DorgamJanaína
Luis MirandaAntônio Jardineiro
Theo WerneckVandré
Luci PereiraRaimunda- Anapaula CsernikDiléia
- Hugo VillavicenzioPeruano
- Roberto CamargoRepórter
- Alex HuszarCaveira
- Andrey Lima LopesFabinho (Criança)
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Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother) - Trailer Sundance 2015
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When was The Second Mother released?
The film was released on June 4, 2015.
What is The Second Mother about?
The story follows Val, a nanny who abandoned her daughter Jessica 13 years earlier to work in São Paulo. When Jessica reappears as a teenager, her presence disrupts the household dynamics and forces both mother and daughter to confront questions of class, duty, and family.
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What language is the film in?
The Second Mother is a Brazilian film and is in Portuguese.
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