During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.1/10 | |
Released: | May 4, 2001 | |
Runtime: | 115 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Companies: | Madragoa Filmes Instituto do Cinema, Audiovisual e Multimédia (ICAM) Gemini Films | |
Cast: | Rita Blanco Adriano Luz Teresa Madruga Alda Gomes | |
Crew: | João Canijo Pierre Hodgson Celine Pouillon | |
insaniacza : agreed although.... how can they actually expect it to be any better than the original?