Good Manners
As Boas Maneiras
Year:
2017
Runtime:
135 min.
Director:
Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas
Country:
Brazil, France, Germany
Description
Good Manners begins as a social drama about class inequality, slowly twists into a gothic fairy tale, and ends as a full-blown horror film. In short, it’s another standout example of smart horror from South America—the kind I actively seek out and never skip.
A quiet, reserved nurse from a low-income São Paulo neighborhood is hired as a live-in caregiver for a wealthy, reclusive pregnant woman.
Here’s the question: what has she walked into? What kind of horror is waiting behind those mansion walls? And what exactly is the wealthy woman going to give birth to?
Awards: Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
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