2018 · fantasy · horror · mystery
Good Manners
Directed by Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas2h 16m2018
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
Our read: Good Manners (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal fantasy · horror · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured fantasy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- surreal
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