Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
Brazil, France | 2019 | 131 mins | English and Portuguese with English subtitles
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 (among them Sônia Braga) notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen 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 led by Udo Kier 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. The mercenaries just may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.
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We are grateful to Kino Lorber for creating this opportunity. Bacurau opened in New York on March 6, less than a week before theaters started shutting down. It was scheduled to expand to more than 60 cities in the coming weeks. Reviews had already hit. The theaters had been running trailers for weeks. Bacurau is a film about a community banding together in the face of a mysterious and malevolent threat. We can’t think of a better film to premiere on Kino Marquee.