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Anna Muylaert
Miami Film Society’s monthly special event screening for April will feature a moving drama, The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), by award-winning Brazilian writer and director Anna Muylaert, who wrote the first version of the film 20 years ago when she had her first child—it was called, The Kitchen Door, and was a magical realism story of a domestic servant who was a magician in her own village who could read the future of people. Born in São Paulo in 1964, Muylaert studied at the School of Communications and Arts at University of São Paulo (USP) in the early eighties, then became a film critic for Istoé (Brazil’s equivalent of Time or Newsweek) and O Estado de S. Paulo. In 1988, she joined the staff of Rede Gazeta’s program Mix TV, and several years later wrote for various children’s TV series, including “Mundo da Lua”, and “Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum”. Her impressive list of screenplay collaborations includes the HBO series “Filhos do Carnaval” and “Alice”, as well as multiple feature films including Xingu, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias, and Desmundo.
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“A Origem dos Bebês Segundo Kiki Cavalcanti” (1995); Durval Records (2002); Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009)
Muylaert began her filmmaking career with short films—most notably “A Origem dos Bebês Segundo Kiki Cavalcanti” (1995), which won the Best Film award at Rio Cine and Cine Ceará Festivals. In 2002, she directed her first feature film, Durval Records (Durval Discos), which took home seven awards at Gramado Film Festival, including Best Picture. Her second feature film, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (É Proibido Fumar) in 2009, garnered over 30 national awards, including Best Film at Brasilia Film Festival, Grand Prize of the Brazilian Academy of Cinema, and Best Direction at Los Angeles Latino Film Festival.
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The Second Mother
Oscilloscope Laboratories picked up the U.S. rights to Muylaert’s latest, The Second Mother, on the heels of its Special Jury Award for Acting at Sundance Film Festival, and Panorama Audience Award at Berlin Film Festival. The film features Rio-born veteran actress, comedian, television host, and director Regina Casé in the role of Val, a live-in housekeeper who loyally serves her wealthy São Paulo employers day in and day out while lovingly nannying their teenage son, whom she’s raised since toddlerhood. Val’s estranged daughter Jessica (Camila Mardila)—who came of age far removed, literally and figuratively, from her mother’s servitude mentality—suddenly appears to take college entrance exams, and the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. Quoting C.L. on Sundance’s site, “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.”
A special event screening of The Second Mother will be held on Tuesday, April 21 at MDC’s Tower Theater at 7:00 PM. TICKETS are currently available for Miami Film Society members, and will go on sale for the general public on Monday, April 6. See you at the movies! –Tatyana Chiocchetti[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
