When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
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Stars:
André Mattos,
Aramis Trindade,
Bruno Garcia
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Val spends 13 years working as nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She is financially stable but has to live with the guilt of having left her daughter Jéssica, in Pernambuco, in the northeast of Brazil, raised by relatives. As college entrance exams roll around, Jéssica wants to come to São Paulo to take her college entrance exams too. When Jéssica arrives, cohabitation is not easy. Everyone will be affected by the personality and candor of the girl and Val finds herself right in the middle of it.
(Sorry for my English): The story basically follows this bourgeois family is shaken by the daughter of the maid who came for entrance exams. I liked the movie naturalness of conversation. In some movies conversations happen flawlessly without any nervousness, something we know to be false in everyday life, but in this film was made with mastery. Movies like this show actually reality and move us. Many Brazilians may have felt uncomfortable with the film, but the film shows the reality of many Brazilian families (guarded the proper proportions). In my opinion, after finishing the film, I realized it tries to show that meritocracy and capitalism are very selfish indeed of things to think about. This movie deserves at least be nominated for a few Oscars.
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(Sorry for my English): The story basically follows this bourgeois family is shaken by the daughter of the maid who came for entrance exams. I liked the movie naturalness of conversation. In some movies conversations happen flawlessly without any nervousness, something we know to be false in everyday life, but in this film was made with mastery. Movies like this show actually reality and move us. Many Brazilians may have felt uncomfortable with the film, but the film shows the reality of many Brazilian families (guarded the proper proportions). In my opinion, after finishing the film, I realized it tries to show that meritocracy and capitalism are very selfish indeed of things to think about. This movie deserves at least be nominated for a few Oscars.