Bacurau (2019 Brazil)
Genre, Sci-fi, Thriller
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Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Starring: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira
Genre: Sc-fi thriller
Duration: 132 mins
Set a few years from now Bacurau begins like one of those feel-good movies white people enjoy watching about poor-but-noble brown people surviving against the odds. We couldn’t imagine ourselves managing in such circumstances, but god bless them for their courage. Deep in the north-eastern Sertão – the Brazilian outback – it mashes up many themes and influences, but is chiefly a scream of satirical defiance against new president Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right globaliser famously promising to make the country more open to foreign trade. This movie’s closing credits pointedly note that the production created 800 jobs.