Good Manners

Name: Good Manners
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Released: July 27, 2018
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Andréa Marquee, Cida Moreira, Eduardo Gomes, Felipe Kenji, Gilda Nomacce

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Distrib Films | Release Date: July 27, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Andréa Marquee, Cida Moreira, Eduardo Gomes, Felipe Kenji, Gilda Nomacce, Isabél Zuaa, Marjorie Estiano, Miguel Lobo, Neusa Velasco, Nina Medeiros

Summary: Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana to be the nanny of her soon to be born child. Against all odds, the two women develop a strong bond. But a fateful night marked by a full moon changes their plans. [Distrib Films]

Director: Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra

Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror, Musical

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 135 min

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Noel Murray

Aug 16, 2018

This is a different kind of monster movie, no doubt. It’s beautiful and magical, and as aware of the real world as it is of classic Hollywood. Good Manners is a haunting tale of love — and the burdens that come with it. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Jul 26, 2018

Swerving from predictable to confounding, dreamy to demented, artful to awkward, this genre-twisting hybrid from Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra links art house and slaughterhouse with unexpected success. Read full review

The Playlist Oliver Lyttelton

Jul 26, 2018

Pulling off an ambitious mash-up of genres like Good Manners is no easy feat — that Dutra and Rojas pull it off so successfully suggests we’ll be hearing a lot more from them down the road. Read full review

Serena Donadoni

Jul 25, 2018

Rojas and Dutra have created a singular fable where anxiety and fear are directed inward, even when the danger is all too real. Read full review

Neil Young

Jul 26, 2018

The first hour is the strongest, graced as it is by Estiano's nuanced performance as a conventional-seeming young woman who gradually and very sympathetically reveals her inner self after welcoming Clara into her life. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Jul 26, 2018

Class, desire, motherhood, responsibility to society — all these themes are worked in, to varying degrees. Yet balancing the film’s two halves is less successful, and certain shifts between humor and dead-seriousness don’t quite work. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Jul 27, 2018

The film is a rebellion of surfaces that never quite reaches, or emanates from, the underpinning roots of its fable. Read full review

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JLuis_001

May 14, 2023

An unconventional supernatural tale about a werewolf.
I wasn't prepared for such a story and I'm not talking about impact, I'm talking about the fact that its plot route is something very different from what you would expect from a story involving a werewolf, which in this case is a boy andAn unconventional supernatural tale about a werewolf.
I wasn't prepared for such a story and I'm not talking about impact, I'm talking about the fact that its plot route is something very different from what you would expect from a story involving a werewolf, which in this case is a boy and also that the rest of the plot focuses more on a motherhood approach.
On the woman who was expecting him and giving birth to him cost her her life, and the one who had to become a mother because of the circumstances.

Its strong features are more projected in its first and second sections because its conclusion did not really convince me, which obviously made me take away some points, but I still give it enough credit, more than anything for trying something different and more creative.

This kind of approach may not get you much attention in the commercial circle, but if people discover you, you'll stand out without any problem.

Give it a chance.… Expand

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