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Maids
2001
Fernando Meirelles
2001·Not Rated·
Brazil
Award tierBronze
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?
Cast
Cláudia Missura·Graziella Moretto·Lena Roque·Olivia Araújo
Producers
Andrea Barata Ribeiro·Bel Berlinck·Flávia Thompson
Languages
Major Awards
0 wins · 1 nomination
Nominations (1)
Festival Grand Prize
International Film Festival Rotterdam (2001)
Tiger Award
Fernando MeirellesNando Olival