Que horas ela volta?
Item
Title / Título (Original)
Que horas ela volta?
Title
The Second Mother
Director
Release Date / Fecha de estreno
2015
Film Guide / Guía de película
Language / Idioma
Portuguese / portugués
Country / País
Production Company / Compañía de Producción
Globo Filmes (Brazil)
Africa Filmes (Brazil)
Africa Filmes (Brazil)
Description / Descripción
Que horas ela volta? tells the story of Val, a woman from the Northeastern region of Brazil who works as a live-in maid for a well-to-do São Paulo family. At first, as a very brief scene in the beginning of the film indicates, she worked as a nanny for the family's only child, Fabinho (Michel Joelsas), now a late teen, and for that reason she still has very strong quasi-maternal ties with him. She and her employer, Barbara (Karina Teles), appear to have a warm, friendly, relationship until the arrival of Jéssica (Camila Márdila), Val's daughter, who comes to São Paulo in order to prepare for a university entrance examination ("vestibular") at the School of Architecture. Having been raised unaware of her mother's actual situation, and not having seen her mother for over 10 years, Jéssica finds herself, unexpectedly, living temporarily at the house of Val's employers. She is a self-assured young woman who does not understand her mother's social resignation. With time, her presence at the house creates all kinds of problems: Barbara is driven to distraction and Carlos (Lourenço Mutarelli), Barbara's husband (who is responsible for the family's fortune), becomes so infatuated with Jéssica that he ends up proposing to her. The film has a happy, light-comedy ending: Jessica obtains much better results than Fabinho in the university examination, and Val quits her job and rents a house with her daughter in order to help the latter look after her own son, whose existence is revealed only towards the end of the film. (Source: Sá, Lúcia. “Intimacy at Work: Servant and Employer Relations in Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother).” Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies, vol. 24, no. 3, Dec. 2018, pp. 311–327.)
A pernambucana Val (Regina Casé) se mudou para São Paulo a fim de dar melhores condições de vida para sua filha Jéssica. Com muito receio, ela deixou a menina no interior de Pernambuco para ser babá de Fabinho, morando integralmente na casa de seus patrões. Treze anos depois, quando o menino (Michel Joelsas) vai prestar vestibular, Jéssica (Camila Márdila) lhe telefona, pedindo ajuda para ir à São Paulo, no intuito de prestar a mesma prova. Os chefes de Val recebem a menina de braços abertos, só que quando ela deixa de seguir certo protocolo, circulando livremente, como não deveria, a situação se complica. (Adoro Cinema Brasil)
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Citation
“Que horas ela volta?,” Cinegogía, accessed April 23, 2024, https://cinegogia.omeka.net/items/show/546.