AsBoas Maneiras (Good Manners). 2017. Brazil/France. Directed by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas. In Portuguese; English subtitles. 135 min. New York Premiere An immaculately stylized twist on the monster movie, Dutra and Rojas’s second collaboration (following the acclaimed Hard Labor) inventively engages matters of race, class, and desire.
ASBOAS Maneiras (English: Good Manners) is a Brazilian film directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra that was recently screened at the 58th Cartagena International Film GoodManners, their second feature together after Hard Labor (2011), is a terrifying melodrama with science fiction, political and musical elements, its concept originating in a dream Marco had of two women living in an isolated house, breeding a phantom baby. A loose version of a werewolf myth, the film is rife with the sensibility of Tourneur