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Bacurau

2019

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles

Udo Kier, Sônia Braga, Jonny Mars, Chris Doubek ...

6.3

3,323

Mystery. Thriller A filmmaker decides to travel to a village in the interior of Brazil to make a documentary. As days go by, he begins to discover that the locals are not exactly what they appear to be and hide dangerous secrets.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A wonderful and demented Western (...) Over time, this unmoored and deeply unexpected mash-up assumes the sharp-toothed defiance of Cinema Novo classics"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"A visually impressive but unevenly paced thriller that feels as if it’s meant to be analyzed more than enjoyed"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A paranoid revenge western that reminded me of Clint Eastwood in 'A Fistful of Dollars' (...) It is an utterly distinctive film-making, executed with ruthless clarity and force (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"[It combines] sunny small-town comedy with a fable-like plot and a sprinkle of magic realism. It's an impressively rich mix, but perhaps a little too rich, feeling both overstuffed and undercooked in places."
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"The combination of satire and savagery is pretty fierce and intriguingly unique (...) [It] leaves your preconceptions hacked up and rolling all over the place (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Wendy Ide Screendaily	"[It] is a bracingly confrontational commentary on the direction the country is taking in the Bolsonaro era. Propulsive storytelling doesn’t come at the expense of the vividly sketched personality of the community"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"It’s disturbing and messy, a fever dream for a disturbing and messy time in Brazil. And occasionally, it’s a lot of fun, too (...) [It] delights in the trappings of genre."
		Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"'Bacurau' is a choral work which isn’t easy to pin down, with all its zigzagging between genres, but which proves its worth as the film progresses (...) It’s a lesson in style"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"Futuristic satire descends into bland gore‑fest (...) I liked the first half (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Charlotte O'Sullivan London Evening Standard	"It’s agonisingly suspenseful. It’s laugh out loud funny, too (...) 'Bacurau' is in the same class as 'Parasite' (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Maybe the film loses its head a bit at [the end], with its deeper message lost in the epic bloodshed, but the chances are you’ll be having too much fun to mind (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Tara Brady Irish Times	"The film keeps the nice and nasty surprises coming. Braga, Kier and Pereira are standouts in a stellar cast (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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