Bacurau never wastes a chance to leave a mark on its audience. From "Knives Out" at home and "Parasite" abroad, these. Bacurau is a slow burn of a film that leads up to an intense and violent confrontation that is part Western pulp, part fierce social commentary on the evils of racist.

En route to the village of Bacurau to attend her grandmother (and village matriarch) Carmelita's funeral, Teresa (Bárbara Colen) encounters an overturned truck filled with empty coffins. 'Bacurau' Review: 'Seven Samurai' Meets 'Hostel' in Delirious Brazilian Western. "Aquarius" director Kleber Mendonça Filho returns with a wonderful and demented Western about the perils of rampant. Above all else, Bacurau delights in its status as a slippery, unpredictable beast that straddles genres, tones and themes. It is mostly a weird version of a standard.

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Brazilian filmmakers deliver ultra-violent and wacky sci-fi ornated with historical allusions and spiced with. 'Bacurau': Film Review Bacurau ambles along in this lackadaisical semi-comic mode for its first hour before Mendonca Filho and Dornelles introduce a more sinister note. The explosive fury of Bacurau's slow-burn climax is a gratifying payoff to the film's suspense, but without the deliberate measures. Most of all, Bacurau has a community. In Bacurau, the latest from Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho and his collaborator Juliano Dornelles, there's a brief scene in which a strin. It stars Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino.

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MRQE Metric: See what the critics had to say and watch the trailer. Synopsis: Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita. This week on the Film Review, Mark Kermode joins Jane Hill to discuss the latest cinema and DVD releases, including Misbehaviour, Bacurau and My Spy.

Review: Bacurau Tosses a Satiric Grenade at Brazil's Political Machine. Romola Garai's Amulet centers around the much-discussed horror movie trope of the arcane or abject mother figure. What Bacurau certainly doesn't correspond to is expectations about the cinema of Mendonça Filho, the better Bacurau is co-directed and co-written by Mendonça Filho with Juliano Dornelles, production. Bacurau, as well as being the Portuguese word for "nightjar", is the name of an outlandish new film from Bacurau has been the site of carnage in its past, as we realise when glimpsing the museum's.