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“Critic’s Pick! An exhilarating fusion of high and low.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“…a modern-day western with some of the raw, hallucinatory power of a Sergio Leone epic…rich and extremely filling.”
– Justin Chang, The Los Angeles Times
“A genre-busting entertainment that is at once a portrait of a community, a horror thriller and a timely piece of political filmmaking. Bacurau is one of those movies like Parasite — or Mendonça’s brilliant debut Neighboring Sounds— where you’re never quite sure which way it’s heading… one of those rare movies that manages to be both devoutly national and universal.”
– John Powers, NPR
WINNER: Grand Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection: TIFF, NYFF
Brazil | 2019 | 131 Minutes | Color | English and Portuguese with English subtitles
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 notice that their village has vanished from most maps and a UFO-shaped drone starts flying overhead. There are forces that want to move them out of their homes, and soon a band of armed mercenaries arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce and bloody confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders and they band together to protect their remote community, in a genre-bending twist.