Synopsis:
After the death of their matriarch, a backcountry Brazilian village is disturbed by strange occurrences and mysterious armed mercenaries come to pick them off. The perpetrators of this class warfare, however, may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of Bacurau. This wild shape-shifter and “gloriously demented political allegory” (Indiewire) bears witness to society’s forgotten and marginalized as they stand up for themselves by any means necessary. With references to the fearless genre works of John Carpenter, George Miller, and Sergio Leone, BACARAU, winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, is a vividly angry power-to-the-people fable like no other.
Director: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Bárbara Colen, Silvero Pereira, Sônia Braga, Thomas Aquino, Udo Kier
Portuguese with English Subtitle
132 min.
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