Bacurau

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Bacurau

2020

2h 11m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

Fantasy

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A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.

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Critics Consensus

Formally thrilling and narratively daring, Bacurau draws on modern Brazilian sociopolitical concerns to deliver a hard-hitting, genre-blurring drama.

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Kambole Campbell

NME (New Musical Express)

06/10/2021

4/5

It's a curious film that defies categorisation, opening quietly before descending into a cacophony of cathartic bloodletting by the chaotic finale.

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David Sims

The Atlantic

01/27/2021

I don't want to spoil a second of Bacurau, but it's one of the best filmic distillations of that impending 21st-century sense of doom, a concentrated vision of the apocalypse that somehow manages to strike a hopeful note.

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Ela Bittencourt

Harper's Magazine

05/02/2020

Mendonça and Dornelles's film is... an attempt to grapple with unspeakable, horrifying evil -- but an evil that must be understood in social and historical rather than biblical terms.

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Sukanya Verma

Rediff.com

08/27/2024

The lesser you know about this completely bonkers, bloody movie about survival versus sadism the better.

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Paul Kanieski

KSQD Community Radio

07/24/2023

Its themes are universal, and anyone who’s seen the videos of rioters storming the congressional halls on January 6th will find some of Bacurau’s antagonists eerily familiar.

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Rhys Handley

Vague Visages

06/05/2023

Relishing in its ability to wrong foot and thrill right to its final moments, it s an unashamedly cinematic experience, with its makers playing in a sandbox of tropes and expectations, subverting them to put forward a radical and wholly essential message.

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Carlos H

@carloshenriquec Dec 28

Como brasileiro, orgulho-me em dizer que Bacurau é não somente um dos filmes mais inventivos do Brasil, como também do mundo. Ele é criativo, esquisito (no melhor emprego da palavra) e totalmente imprevisível! Você não sabe do que se trata a história, até a revelação de quem são os antagonistas, e, até esta descoberta, o diretor joga não somente pistas para o público, como introduz elementos que, ao mesmo tempo, fazem com que duvidemos daquilo que concluímos ser a história. Um exemplo disto é a cena em que um personagem dirige, solitário, por uma estrada de terra, e um objeto não identificado, com a aparência de um disco voador, o persegue pelos céus. Mais além, é revelado que aquele objeto é, na verdade, um drone, utilizado pelos antagonistas para espiar Bacurau. Este é um exemplo fantástico, pois o diretor se utiliza de uma imagem do inconsciente coletivo para "brincar" e "enganar" o telespectador. Elenco, fotografia, direção e trilha impecáveis. Obra-prima!

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josh o

@JoshO Dec 4

One of the worst movies I've ever watched. It's like a middle school project. Don't waste your time.

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Alexsander F

@Aelxs Jul 19

Long live great Brazilian cinema!

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Thalys R

@Thalys 12/03/2024

Mesmo sendo uma história ficcional, o filme tem o dom de fazer com que o telespectador entre na trama apresentada e sofra junto com a população do povoado os problemas enfrentados. Além disso o filme traz uma dura crítica pela falta de atuação dos políticos e os problemas enfrentados pela população sem nenhuma ajuda externa. Ótimos atores, ótimos cenários e ótimo roteiro.

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Kauã M

@KauaMiguel 08/21/2024

One of the film's magics is perhaps what makes it not as talked about as it should be, which is not knowing what it's about, but as a Brazilian watching this film I realized that no Brazilian film will be successful if it doesn't address something from the reality of some people suffering in Brazil, but this film is so well constructed, every message to be conveyed, direction and performances are impeccable, you should definitely see this film, and it is a must to see if it is Brazilian.

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Luiz R

@RT67509985 05/06/2024

An engaging story that captures curiosity when least expected.

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Synopsis

A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
Producer: Saïd Ben Saïd, Emilie Lesclaux, Michel Merkt
Screenwriter: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Arte France Cinema, CinemaScópio Produções, SBS Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
Original Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 6, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 19, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $58.1K
Runtime: 2h 11m

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