Former American President Barack Obama has included the Brazilian film Bacurau in his annual list of favorite films of the year, along with other 13 titles, in a message that he posted in Twitter this morning.Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, had its wold premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, where it won the Jury Prize, and has been named one of the year’s best in numerous media lists, including the New York Times, IndieWire, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker
Set in a few years from now in the small village of Bacurau in the Brazilian sertão, the film follows the people of the town as they mourn the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from most maps and a UFO-shaped drone starts flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries arrive in town picking off the inhabitants one by one. A fierce confrontation takes place when the townspeople turn the tables on the villainous outsiders, banding together by any means necessary to protect and maintain their remote community.
Hailed as "A heart-thumping political allegory that tips its hat to masters like John Carpenter." (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times) and “a gloriously demented (and lightly psychedelic) Western" (David Ehrlich, IndieWire), the film is currently streaming in numerous platforms.
