Bacurau (2019)

• Year: 2019
• Released: 19 Mar 2020
• Country: Brazil, France
• Adwords: 52 wins & 73 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2762506/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bacurau
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/bacurau
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Portuguese, English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
• Runtime: 131 min
• Writer: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
• Director: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Cast: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira
• Keywords: resistance, colonialism, transsexuality, autonomy, sertão,

	7.3/10
	82/100
	93% – Critics
	84% – Audience

Bacurau Storyline

Not knowing what to expect, Teresa returns home for the funeral of her grandmother, Carmelita. But there, in the remote Brazilian outback, corruption rules the arid, water-deprived, and seemingly nonexistent village of Bacurau: a tight-knit community forgotten by God and even Google Maps. Then, suddenly, Bacurau becomes a pole of attraction for mysterious visitors, and an imperceptible, insidious menace casts its dark shadow over the small settlement. Now, as cell phone service disappears and an unexpected object observes from afar, a string of strange occurrences alarms the pill-popping inhabitants. Is death rapidly approaching?

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Bacurau Movie Reviews

Such A Great Movie

One of my faves of the past year. Literally have nothing bad or negative to say about it. So I’ll keep this one short.

A wild ride

Perhaps the most recent entry of weird western genre, this is a wild ride form start to finish. imagine mixing Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns with science fiction, horror and disturbing scenes, psychedelic drugs, Udo kier as a former nazi with his squad of savage american-eoropean villains and cultural themes of a local brazillian village and the result is Bacurau.

Written and directed by Kleber Mendonca, an acclaimed brazillian filmmaker, Bacurau is a roller-coaster of a film. It manages somehow to be both 1. reminiscent of Jodorowsky’s surrealists westerns and 2. a very modern social commentary film about foreign invasion and colonialism. You may or may not like this film, but you will surely appreciate it’s accomplishments.

Really Goes for It

Man this movie really goes for it.

A wild, wild movie that feels like both a nod to Sergio Leone by way of Quentin Tarantino (though that’s basically just saying this is like a Tarantino movie) and something wholly its own, “Bacurau” is a fiercely original howl of rage at white oppression and exploitation. The inhabitants of Bacurau, a small village in rural South America, are in a literal fight for survival against a band of gun-crazed killers, most of them American, who don’t seem to have a motive for wiping them out beyond the exhilaration of killing people. They decide to fight back. That plot summary seems simple and linear. But as it plays out in the movie, it’s instead a tangled knot of teased plot strands, information strategically withheld, and a gradual spiral from straightforward storytelling to almost surreal narrative.

I would normally complain about a movie like this that wants us to cheer on brutality just because those committing it have themselves been brutalized. But despite, or maybe because, this movie is so unapologetic in its violence and rage, it’s utterly captivating and exhilarating. Disturbing to be sure, but also tremendously exciting.

Grade: A.