zedz wrote: ↑Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:05 pmGood Manners (Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra) – This is perhaps the ultimate example of a film of two halves. For the first hour and a bit, it’s a slow-burn mystery about a nanny-housewife’s growing realization that something is wrong with her pregnant mistress (and eventual lover). This section is a well-done mood piece, predicated on the excellent rapport between the two actresses. For the second hour and a bit, the film is completely bonkers.SpoilerShowThe mother was impregnated by a werewolf, and a little werewolf baby was on the way.
It’s not exactly good, but I was full of admiration for the filmmakers’ commitment to the complete change in tone and mood: the film even becomes a musical, for Christ’s sake! You want to see something genuinely weird, here you go.
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Speaking of Portuguese-language horror, those of you with a particular interest in contemporary fantasy should keep Good Manners, a Brazilian werewolf movie, on your radar. This is a fascinating little two-parter about the anxieties of becoming a parent and the sacrifices that parents make as realized through the lens of well-made genre horror, kicked off when a pregnant woman's new live-in maid begins to notice her employer's unnerving behaviors every full moon.
Go into this movie relatively blind - it depends in part on your ability to be surprised in the larger sense.