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= Good Manners (2017 Film) = Good Manners (Portuguese: As Boas Maneiras) is a 2017 Brazilian drama film directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra. The film stars Isabél Zuaa as Clara, a lonely nurse who applies to be a live-in nanny for a wealthy soon-to-be mother, Ana (played by Marjorie Estiano), in the city of São Paulo. The film blends the genres of romance, thriller, and folklore in a story of an unlikely bond between two women and of a mother's love for her child. The film introduces a dark, mythical twist while touching on themes of social class, race, and isolation.

The film premiered on August 6, 2017 at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and was released theatrically in France on March 21, 2018. The film received critical acclaim globally, winning the 2017 Locarno International Film Festival, the 2017 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, and many more.

Plot
Clara (Isabél Zuaa), a lonely woman living in the poorer outskirts of São Paulo, has applied to be a live-in nanny for Ana (Marjorie Estiano), a wealthy, single mother-to-be in the high-rises of inner São Paulo. There is some initial tension between the two socioeconomically opposite women as Ana gives Clara household chores to do in addition to watching after her. Clara learns that Ana has been exiled from her plantation-owning family because she is pregnant not with her original fiancée’s son, but with another man’s.

Despite the subtle divisions in race and class, the two become closer to each other and eventually fall in love. They live peacefully as Clara takes good care of Ana who dances through her daily exercise routine and patiently waits for the baby (who she decides to name Joel). Things become more dark when Clara discovers that Ana has sleepwalking episodes around full moons in which her eyes glow bright yellow and she consumes raw meat (a live cat at one point). Ana eventually tells Clara the story of the real father of her child: a man she met in a bar who disappeared around the same time she saw a creature with glowing eyes in a forest, foreshadowing that the man was indeed the beast. On a particular full moon, Ana unexpectedly dies after Joel violently pushes and ruptures through her womb. An overwhelmed Clara finds that the baby is werewolf-like. She initially abandons him on the side of the road, but she decides to raise him because he is her lover's child.

Some years later, Joel is a little boy (Miguel Lobo) living with Clara in the same outskirts of São Paulo. He goes to school like every other kid, but Clara does not let him eat meat or have a social life out of fear that he will turn into a werewolf. Around every full moon, Clara has to lock him in chains in a dungeon-like room before he goes to bed. In the mornings, she shaves fur that has grown all over his body overnight. Wanting to protect Joel from the truth, Clara has created a tale to tell him in which he was left abandoned by a riverbank on the night of a full moon as a gift to her.

However, Joel eventually finds a picture of Ana in an old shoe box of hers (Ana's) and demands to know about her. When Clara tells him that Ana died after he was prematurely born, he does not believe her. One day after school, Joel and his best friend Maurício (Felipe Kenji) go to the city mall (where the shoe box was from) in an attempt to find Joel’s mother. They hide in the mall until nighttime when the full moon appears. Unable to control himself, Joel turns into a werewolf and violently kills Mauricio. After he returns home, Clara finds blood on his mouth and demands to know what happened, but he does not remember. He becomes fed up with her dominance and locks her in the dungeon room as he goes to his school’s square dance with his friend Amanda (Nina Medeiros). Clara’s coworker Angela (Andréa Marquee) becomes suspicious about Clara’s whereabouts and eventually frees her from the dungeon room. Because the night of the school dance falls on a full moon, Joel turns into a werewolf and almost attacks Amanda, but Clara shoots him in the leg (with a gun that Ana kept) and brings him home. Amanda tells the townspeople what happened, and they raid Clara’s house. In the last scene, Clara and werewolf Joel have overcome their struggles and are prepared to fight the mad townspeople.

Cast

 * Isabél Zuaa as Clara
 * Marjorie Estiano as Ana
 * Miguel Lobo as Joel
 * Cida Moreira as Dona Amélia
 * Andréa Marquee as Ângela
 * Felipe Kenji as Maurício
 * Nina Medeiros as Amanda
 * Neusa Velasco as Dona Norma
 * Gilda Nomacce as Gilda
 * Eduardo Gomes as Professor Edu
 * Hugo Villavicenzio as Hugo
 * Adriana Mendonça as Cida
 * Germano Melo as Dr. Circo Poças
 * Naloana Lima as Moradora de Rua
 * Clara de Capua as Seguranca do Shopping

Development
Good Manners is the second film from directors Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra. Their previous film, Hard Labor (film), was released in 2011. The inspiration for this film came from Dutra’s dream about two women living in isolation and raising a monster child. Both Rojas and Dutra liked the idea of women protecting a creature against the world and the fantastical element of the creature as a monster. Rojas and Dutra made this film in a collaborative process which is most evident in the screenwriting and directing. Good Manners was a French co-production with Canal+ Group.

Pre-Production
The two main actresses of Good Manners, Isabel Zuaa and Marjorie Estiano, auditioned for the film by reading a scene, and the directors were impressed with how they connected to the material.

Production
Good Manners was filmed in São Paulo, Brazil. The filming began on February 20, 2016 and was finished on July 31, 2016.

Post-Production
The editing process took under a year to complete, starting on August 21, 2016 and ending on July 3, 2017. One difficulty they encountered while editing Good Manners was cutting the film while also balancing the two parts of the story and maintaining the level of detail to develop each character’s story properly. However, the main challenge of the film was incorporating the special effects. Good Manners used both mechanical effects with a animatronic baby and digital effects with a computer-generated imagery (CGI) creature. The directors of the film wanted to keep the reality of São Paulo while also immersing fantastic elements, which required planning for many scenes before shooting began. In terms of music and sound, the directors and music composers, Marco Dutra and Andrea Marquee, took inspiration from earlier Disney films such as Cinderella (1950 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), and Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), and from theater directors Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill to integrate the fantasy with music. The directors said that the purpose of music in Good Manners was to draw suspense, set a mood, and make a personal statement on behalf of the characters.

Release
Good Manners had its World Premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on August 6, 2017 where it won the special jury prize. It made its premiere in Brazil on October 6, 2017 at the Rio International Film Festival. Distrib films acquired the rights to Good Manners and released it on July 27, 2018 in the United States, where it grossed $31,177 at the box office.

Critical Response
Being a quite unconventional film, Good Manners received mixed reviews; film review-aggregator Rotten Tomatoes sites that 95% of critics gave the film a positive review out of 39 reviews while on 67% of the audience liked the film out of 226 ratings. IMDb has this movie at a 6.9 out of 10 based on 1,487 user reviews.

Critic Jeannette Catsoulis from The New York Times commented on the film being “wondrously weird and a skosh too long.” Mario Abbade, in a review in O Globo, says it “drinks properly from all sources of the horror genre combined with fantasy” but “also flirts with drama, romance and musical.” Neil Young from The Hollywood Reporter was impressed “craft-wise in terms of cinematography and production design.” Jay Weissberg of Variety stated that the film was “ambitious work not only in scope but design” and it “dig[s] deeper, playing with fantasy elements to address issues that matter in the real world.” Critic Wendy Ide of Screen Daily was not impressed with the acting of the children but mentioned that “animatronic models coupled with digital effects do a decent job.” Rich Cline from Gay Essential described it as “both gripping and unforgettable.”