It’s rare to be truly surprised by a movie. Even at a film festival (especially one like the LFF, which mostly screens movies that have picked up buzz elsewhere), you’re often playing catch-up, and even when you find something that no one else has told you about, it all too often falls into a familiar sort of formula. Which is why a movie like “Good Manners” is so refreshing, and we’d suggest you went into it knowing as little as possible about it (we’ll stay as spoiler-free as we can below).

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