Good Manners

Clara, a lonely nurse living on the outskirts of São Paulo, takes a job as nanny for the unborn child of Ana, a wealthy and mysterious woman. The two grow close, but Clara comes to sense that something is wrong with the child Ana is carrying, and a fateful night upends both their lives. The film blends drama, fantasy and horror with musical passages, and its story moves between the two women's bond and the strangeness surrounding the baby.

Good Manners is a 2018 Brazilian-French production directed by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, who also wrote the screenplay together. It is the earlier of the two features each has directed according to the credits: Dutra later made Bury Your Dead, and Rojas went on to Cidade; Campo. Isabél Zuaa plays Clara and Marjorie Estiano plays Ana, with Miguel Lobo, Cida Moreira, Felipe Kenji and Nina Medeiros among the supporting cast of twenty-one credited performers. Sara Silveira, Frédéric Corvez and Clément Duboin produced.

The film runs 136 minutes. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.5 out of 10 from 242 votes, a moderate audience score suggesting a mixed but not hostile response.