FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Fernando Meirelles - Domesticas (engl. subt.) 

I was recommended Domesticas by a customer of our video store. He said he was having a great time and a little more. He was deeply moved! Domesticas is the debut of Fernando Meirelles (yes, the one who did "City Of God" afterwards). The film is an experimental documentary about maidservants in Brazil. Domesticas. An area of starvation wages and exploitation - and domesticas now brings a human dimension to this area. When the domesticas themselves give information about their lives, the jovial always shifts to the tragic. That must be what our customer meant by "splendidly amused", but also "deeply moved"! We experience the portrait of seven domesticas and their families. One works for a Jewish family. At first she hates their food. But she has to prepare it! Then the relationship between the children of rich parents and their "nanny" is examined. The child loves the "nanny" and she loves the child. More than the mother? The maid as part of the family, but also separated from her (Imagine, friends come to visit...). Sometimes we experience the Domesticas also in unobserved moments. At least you get the impression; they felt unobserved. When they dance alone or cry in front of the television while playing football. The film asks more questions than it can answer. Is it a coincidence that a teenager sings "Blowin In The Wind", the song of social reforms, at the end? Domesticas, in any case, offers much more than just a portrait of a maid. It goes back to the roots of society and goes as far as colonial times...