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The Second Mother


Directed by: Anna Muylaert


2015 | Brazil | 112 minutes | Unrated



Screening

Friday, September 16, 2016, 7pm

Matinee

Saturday, September 17, 2016, 3pm

Screening

Saturday, September 17, 2016, 7pm



An excitingly fresh take on some classic themes and ideas, The Second Mother centers around Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern day Sao Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers’ needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val’s estranged daughter Jessica suddenly shows up the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. Jessica is smart, confident, and ambitious, and refuses to accept the upstairs/downstairs dynamic, testing relationships and loyalties and forcing everyone to reconsider what family really means.

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