Get a Life

(2001)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2001

Runtime: 115 мин

Country: France, Portugal

Director: João Canijo

Cast: Rita Blanco, Adriano Luz, Teresa Madruga, Alda Gomes, Olivier Leite, Maria David, Yvette Caldas, Jinie Rainho, Adélia Baltazar, Luis Rego

Plot

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.