Maids ( Domésticas )

Maids (DVD) (*)

$22.99

Original Title: Domésticas
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Fernando Meirelles
Nando Olival

Written By:
Fernando Meirelles
Nando Olival
Cecília Homem de Mello

Actors:
Cláudia Missura ..... Raimunda
Graziela Moretto ..... Roxane
Lena Roque ..... Créo
Olivia Araújo ..... Quitéria
Renata Melo ..... Cida
Robson Nunes ..... Jailto
Tiago Moraes ..... Gilvan
Jo Columbo
Eduardo Estrela
Georgetta Fadel
Roberta Garcia
Patricia Gaspar
Raul Gazolla
Cecília Homem de Mello
Cybele Jacome
Fabio Madeira
Luis Miranda
Fabinho Nepo
Teca Pereira
Celaide Queiroz
Luciano Quirino
Marcia Ribeiro
Cristina Rocha
Plinio Soares
Deo Teixeira
Theo Werneck

Synopsis:

Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better. As Roxane says, no child sets out to become a maid. But once there, are all other doors closed?

In Brazil, there are no less than three million housemaids, each with her own, yet universal, story of loneliness, ambition and loss but also of mutual solidarity and love. No less than 3 million women in Brazil work as 'domestics' and they all have stories to tell.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 09 February, 2007.

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