Bacurau
Director: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho Run Time: 131 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2019 Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Starring: Silvero Pereira, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Sônia Braga, Karine Teles, Thomas Aquino, Julia Marie Peterson, Antonio Saboia
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 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 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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