Bacurau
57th New York Film Festival
September 27 - October 13, 2019
In this wild shape-shifter, a vibrant, richly diverse backcountry Brazilian town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants become the targets of a group of armed mercenaries. Bacurau is a vividly angry power-to-the-people fable like no other.
Final day! Bacurau ends its Virtual Cinema run on Monday, June 22.
We’re pleased to offer our Film at Lincoln Center audience the chance to see the extraordinary Brazilian film Bacurau, in partnership with Kino Lorber. Your screening rental will support FLC, and help us in our mission to remain a vibrant center for cinema culture once this turbulent period is behind us.
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A vibrant, richly diverse backcountry Brazilian town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants become the targets of a group of armed mercenaries. The perpetrators of this class warfare, however, may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau. Those who remember Kleber Mendonça Filho’s wonderful NYFF54 crowd-pleaser Aquarius starring Sônia Braga—who appears here in a memorable supporting role—might be surprised by the new terrain and occasional ultraviolence of his latest, codirected with his longtime production designer Juliano Dornelles. Yet this wild shape-shifter shares with that film the exhilaration of witnessing society’s forgotten and marginalized standing up for themselves by any means necessary. With references to the fearless genre works of John Carpenter, George Miller, and Sergio Leone, Bacurau, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a vividly angry power-to-the-people fable like no other. Also starring Udo Kier, Karine Teles, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, and Silvero Pereira. A Kino Lorber release. An NYFF57 selection.
Check out a pair of conversations with the Bacurau team from the 57th NYFF below.
It is so beautiful. It has an unique energy that brings with it an enigmatic and primitive force.
—Bong Joon Ho
A neo-exploitation movie masterpiece.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone
Critic's Pick! An exhilarating fusion of high and low.
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
A perfect blend of blistering social commentary and illicit genre-flick thrills.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone
A suspenseful, surprising, splattery winner.
—Michael Gingold, Birth. Movies. Death.
Utterly distinctive filmmaking, executed with ruthless clarity and force. A scream of satirical defiance.
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Invigorating and audacious.
—Ela Bittencourt, Film Comment
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