Good Manners

R16

2017

135 mins

Directed by Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
96%
71%
Fantasy
Horror

The werewolf movie comes alive again in this Brazilian outing that won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno and the... More

The werewolf movie comes alive again in this Brazilian outing that won the Special Jury Prize at Locarno and the Critics’ Award at Sitges.

"Clara (Isabél Zuaa, outstanding) is poor, black and unemployed. Against the odds, she lands a live-in nanny job in the posh São Paulo apartment of Ana (Marjorie Estiano), a pregnant white woman whose rich family have disowned her. As Ana’s delivery date approaches the women become lovers. But Ana has begun to act very strangely when the moon is full... From its meticulously-arranged opening as a drama about race, class and wealth, Good Manners twists into a scary and wonderfully idiosyncratic tale of love and lycanthropy. The spirit of 1940s RKO horrors inhabits this thoroughly modern werewolf noir." (Sydney Film Festival)

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Good Manners | Ratings & Reviews

96_%47 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
71_%270 reviews
Audience score rating

"For all the blood and gore, this is a quiet, gentle story..."

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Village Voice

"Good Manners is the rare monster movie that might be better before the monster shows up..."

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A.V. Club

"Links art house and slaughterhouse with unexpected success."

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The New York Times

"A magical blend of horror and social drama..."

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Los Angeles Times

"A loving tribute to the classic Hollywood films of the 1940s (those sets! those backdrops!) as well as monster movies from the same era."

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Bloody Disgusting

"This satisfyingly strange film really has it all."

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The Guardian

""Good Manners" is an ambitious work not only in scope but design, influenced by Jacques Tourneur's psychological horror noirs."

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Variety

"Genre defying and genuinely unexpected, this intriguing urban fairytale takes the mythology of the werewolf story and uses it as a prism through which to view contemporary Brazilian society."

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