BACURAU
A film by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
(Brazil /France, 2019, 131 min. In Portuguese and English with English subtitles)
Starring Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen and Silvero Pereirao
Winner, Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, New York Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
A few years from now... Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns 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.
"A heart-thumping political allegory that tips its hat to masters like John Carpenter."
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"A gloriously demented (and lightly psychedelic) Western."
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"[A] boldly inventive political fantasy...
offers a thrillingly imaginative playbook for resistance."
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Now playing via Kino Marquee through the following sites:
Film at Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
BAM (Brooklyn, NY)
Jacob Burns Film Center (Pleasantville, NY)
The Little Theatre (Rochester, NY)
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Riviera Theatre (Santa Barbara, CA)
Denver Film / Sie FilmCenter (Denver, CO)
Belcourt Theater (Nashville, TN)
Austin Film Society (Austin, TX)
Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
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Gold Town Theater (Juneau, AK)
Rafael Film Center (San Rafael, CA)
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Plaza Theatre, Atlanta, GA
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Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City, OK)
Tin Pan (Bend, OR)
Ambler Theater, (Ambler, PA)
County Theater, Doyelstown, PA
Philadelphia Film Society (Philadelphia, PA)
Nickelodeon Theatre (Columbia, SC)
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Pickford Film Center (Bellingham, WA)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, TX)
Violet Crown Charlottesville (Charlottesville, VA)
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