Bacurau - one of the weirdest films I ever saw

[Katji]

Bacurau

Watched it last night on tv, second time.

If you like weird films. Too complicated to tell about it, but...a somewhat remote village in Brazil...[interesting to see the mix of people]...the entire village...
"...we have taken a strong psychotropic drug..."


https://www.theguardian.com › film › mar › bacurau-re...
Bacurau review – wildly entertaining Brazilian weirdness. A rural community comes under attack in a thriller with anticolonial overtones.

Bacurau review: a weird western for menacing times - BFI​

Brazil's bad blood rises in a small corner of the country's Northeastern hinterlands as Udo Kier's brigade of gringos besiege Sonia Braga's ...

 

[norcalscott]

Sounds interesting, 82% on rotten tomatoes - I've got some Google video credits I need to use and I see it is available there, will watch this weekend!

 

[Katji]

The reviews [snippets] or descriptions i saw when I googled it were...not anything I'd have said. Not aligned. The socio-political and reference to "anticolonial overtones", well, ok, I did sit there afterwards thinking "ok so it shows...that...and this..." but...ok, "overtones", but it was more of a farce. Ok, there were some comments [in the dialog] that were obviously deliberate, almost cliches, but...[?]
I do find it interesting - Brazil - compared with South Africa.

Quite weird how some different movies show up on SABC, in between all the usual dross.

 

[spigot]

Two previous films by one of the co-directors are well worth tracking down, Aquarius (2016) and Neighboring Sounds (2012).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5221584/?ref_=nm_knf_t2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2190367/?ref_=nm_knf_t3

 

[USER]

Two previous films by one of the co-directors are well worth tracking down, Aquarius (2016) and Neighboring Sounds (2012).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5221584/?ref_=nm_knf_t2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2190367/?ref_=nm_knf_t3

Absolutely brilliant films. Kleber Mendonça Filho is one of the greatest filmmakers working today. Note that these are very different from Bacarau, which is more like a midnight movie (though with the same political edge as his other works).

 

[norcalscott]

@Katji I watched Bacurau over the weekend and what a great, quirky movie! I love movies like this, very Quinten Tarrantino esque. Thanks for the recommendation!