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A Fantastic Woman
Why this pick
Like The Second Mother, it locates dignity and social resistance in everyday interactions, using a poised, intimate visual style and a fiercely self-possessed central performance.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2015 1h 50m BRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Roma
Why this pick
Its domestic-worker perspective, quietly observed household rhythms, and attention to class boundaries echo The Second Mother, though with a more expansive, memory-like visual scale.
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The Maid
Why this pick
Another sharply observed Latin American household drama, it explores dependency, hierarchy, and a live-in worker’s interior life through uncomfortable humour and intimate character detail.
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The Headless Woman
Why this pick
For its subtle, unsettling examination of privilege and denial: Martel similarly lets class power emerge through spaces, gestures, and what wealthy characters refuse to acknowledge.
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The Milk of Sorrow
Why this pick
Its restrained, humane storytelling follows a young woman navigating domestic service and inherited trauma, balancing social observation with dry humour and quietly transformative resolve.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Regina Casé
Val
Camila Márdila
Jéssica
Karine Teles
Bárbara
Lourenço Mutarelli
José Carlos
Michel Joelsas
Fabinho
Helena Albergaria
Edna
Luci Pereira
Raimunda
Theo Werneck
Vandré