Film
Bacurau
- Director
- Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 131 mins
A bizarro, genre-bending Brazilian sci-fi revenge western that’s been hailed as a powerful satire on populist president Jair Bolsonaro (y’know – the fella who’s so keen on chopping down the rainforest).
It’s set a few years in the future in the eponymous fictional town, where Sônia Braga is the local doctor. The townsfolk are mourning the death of their elderly matriarch when a bunch of wealthy, gun-toting American tourists turn up on a murderous safari, led by German mercenary Udo Kier. If you’ve ever wondered what a film co-directed by Sergio Leone, John Carpenter and Alejando Jodorowsky might look like, dive right in.
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