From Brazilian director Anna Muylaert (Durval Discos, É Proibido Fumar) comes this immensely appealing, warm and poignant film, which won the Audience Award at the Berlinale.

Val is the kind of live-in housekeeper who takes her work seriously. She serves her wealthy São Paulo employers day in and day out while lovingly nannying their teenage son whom she's raised since toddlerhood. Everyone and everything in the elegant house has its place until one day, Val’s ambitious, clever daughter Jessica arrives to take college entrance exams. Jessica’s confident, youthful presence upsets the unspoken yet strict balance of power in the household; Val must decide where her allegiances lie and what she's willing to sacrifice.

With subtly dark, giddy humour and keenly drawn characters, director Anna Muylaert mines the incendiary drama when old ideas and new worlds collide. The immense satisfaction and fun of The Second Mother stem from watching tacit social codes and delicate hierarchies waver as a new generation blithely treads on sacrosanct boundaries. Muylaert has given us a fresh, contemporary spin on class in Brazil, wrapped in a deeply moving story of what belonging and family mean.

"Regina Casé is a marvel." ★★★★ Little White Lies

"The unspoken, unspeakable agony of class and caste is cleverly rendered in this funny, serious movie" ★★★★ The Guardian

★★★★Time Out

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