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Bacurau (2019)

Drama | 131 minutes
3,26 256 votes

Genre: Drama / Mystery

Duration: 131 minuten

Country: Brazil / France

Directed by: Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho

Stars: Sônia Braga, Udo Kier and Bárbara Colen

IMDb score: 7,3 (33.857)

Releasedate: 29 August 2019

Bacurau plot

A woman returns to her native village of Bacurau, a small village in northeastern Brazil, for the funeral of his matriarch, 94-year-old Carmelita. Then the village suddenly disappears from all the cards. It quickly becomes clear that Bacurau is threatened by outsiders, so the villagers must overcome their differences to counter this.

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Drulko Vlaschjan

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Went to the cinema without any prior knowledge and I really liked it. So nice to be there again for the first time since March.

I thought it was a very good film on all fronts. Looks nice, well acted, quite original plot, yes, that was all good. I can imagine that you will find it a bit long-winded if you expect pure horror and a lot of violence. So I don't think it's a one-dimensional 'genre film', more of a western-like art house drama with elements of horror, thriller and sci-fi.

It is rather emphatic as a metaphor for the political situation in Brazil, but it works well in my opinion. I don't see the "danger" that some users are calling here either. I don't think it's about 'race' or skin color, as I read here and there, but about power structures, although in Brazil (and beyond) these broadly coincide. The mayor represents the corrupt elite in Brazil itself. Not necessarily for Bolsonaro, but also for many of his predecessors and for many drivers at the local level. The Americans represent a part of the West. I think it would have been stronger to make it a slightly more heterogeneous group, not just idiot white supremacist but other idiots as well. I thought that one of those guys still had some morals (around the death of that child). And the villagers therefore stand for the oppressed population, that is crystal clear, but even there you saw that not everyone could necessarily get through a door with each other.

Now that I write it down I realize that sometimes it could have been a bit more nuanced, but in general this is just what is going on in Brazil. The problem when someone (a director in this case) crosses the line is that all of a sudden it's all about that. That is also allowed on a film forum, but that does not alter the fact that he sketches a fairly accurate picture of the situation with the necessary exaggeration.

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Beun de Haas BV

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The Brazilian village of Bacurau is confronted with the necessary deaths. After a sleep-inducing first hour, things finally start to pick up, but due to the mishmash of genres covered in a gravy of metaphors, I left the cinema room rather disillusioned. Forced idiosyncratic, waste of my time.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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Kleber Mendonça Filho's debut film has been in my top 10 for years, mainly to keep that top list varied, the film will be somewhere around 20th place. But still high. Still, after the somewhat disappointing Aquarius and now this Bacurau, I can say that that film was a hit, but only once. Kleber Mendonça Filho is above all a good filmmaker, but a mediocre narrator.

This film is an example of that. The individual scenes are excellent: beautifully shot, sometimes fine use of zoom, tension in it, well edited. But the way of telling is rather flawed. Halfway through, all the tension is gone when you find out what's wrong, which is a mediocre way of telling (Hitchcock did that in North by Northwest, not his best moment either). And furthermore, this is very little subtle in terms of metaphors. Where Aquarius was sometimes a bit too subtle for someone unfamiliar with Brazilian culture, it is thought that the whole world will understand it too.

That doesn't mean I wasn't bored, though. The pace and atmosphere are fine and those two hours easily slip away with plenty of beautiful moments in between. But the film does not excel anywhere, so a maximum of 3.5*.

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