Bacurau

"If you come, come in peace"

2019 2h 11m PT

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7.6

BANGER

★7.6TMDB · 1,190

MysteryWesternThriller

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Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

“If you come, come in peace”

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Cast

Bárbara Colen
Teresa
Thomás Aquino
Pacote
Silvero Pereira
Lunga
Sonia Braga
Domingas
Udo Kier
Michael
Thardelly Lima
Tony Jr.
Rubens Santos
Erivaldo
Wilson Rabelo
Plinio

Credits

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Director: Juliano Dornelles
Writers: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Languages: Portuguese, English
Countries: Brazil, France

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MONEY

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Shot for just $1.4M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Portuguese, English.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Brazil, France.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Juliano Dornelles, shot by Pedro Sotero. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Mateus Alves. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Eduardo Serrano shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Bárbara Colen and Thomás Aquino and Silvero Pereira carry the top of the cast.

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The take

Juliano Dornelles directs. Pedro Sotero behind the camera. Mateus Alves scores. Eduardo Serrano cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in Brazil, France. Dialogue in Portuguese, English.

Trivia

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1Shot for just $1.4M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Released 7 years ago.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Portuguese, English.
4International production across 2 countries: Brazil, France.
5Directed by Juliano Dornelles, shot by Pedro Sotero. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Mateus Alves. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Eduardo Serrano shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Bárbara Colen and Thomás Aquino and Silvero Pereira carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "If you come, come in peace".
10IMDB entry: tt2762506 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Pedro Sotero
Original score: Mateus Alves
Editing: Eduardo Serrano
Makeup / hair: Tayce Vale
Sound: Ricardo Cutz
Runtime: 131 min · 2h 11m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,430,000
Box office: $3,554,178
Return: 249% of budget
Original language: PT
IMDB: Bacurau (2019)

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Leno2019-09-23
★ 9/10
A masterpiece. This movie is a very faithful on how the remote Brazilian regions look like, and a very smart and realistic dystopian future movie, a genre that is very rarely well executed in Brazilian movies.
tmdb280390232022-08-26
★ 1/10
With over 200 credits on his résumé — often as a vampire or vampire-adjacent —, revered German actor Udo Kier has appeared in some very good films as well as some very bad ones; Bacurau, a retarded A Sound of Thunder/The Most Dangerous Game hybrid ripoff, falls in the latter category. The beginning is more or less promising. Tony Jr. (Thardelly Lima), mayor of the Sierra Verde municipality, to which Bacurau (which may or may not be the Portuguese word for 'bumf---') belongs, has blocked the dam and put it under the care of armed guards. His reason for doing this, though, is not very clear; Tony’s seeking re-election, but I don’t think hijacking the water supply is going to get him a lot of votes. To wit, when he visits Bacurau, the locals all lock themselves in their houses, from which they cover him in insults; their bravura, however, never reaches the sticks-and-stones phase. Oddly, the locals are so poor that their hatred of Tony does not preclude them from accepting the food he brings them, but not so poor that they don’t all have smartphones and/or tablets — and why wouldn’t they? Otherwise, the town’s Wi-Fi would go to waste. So far good, I guess. Things only really go to hell when one of the residents sees a “drone” flying with all the grace of Gazoo’s spaceship (the drone is obviously computer generated until it “lands”; then it becomes a prop). The drone belongs to a group of foreigners led by Michael (Kier, sadly not playing a vampire). Their plan is to lay waste to the place — never mind that it’s already pretty much a wasteland —, first slaughtering the population and then literally erasing the actual town from the map (or, at the very least, from Google Maps), leaving it as though nothing and nobody was ever even there at all — and that includes the villains themselves. To that purpose, “I have documents that prove we’re not here,” Michael says at one point. I’d really like to know what kind of documents those are and how exactly they work. During that same conversation someone says that they never use modern firearms, only old ones. This is also never explained. My theory is that all the impossible technology they’ve used so far has eaten up the budget for fancy weapons. One of the “hunters” complains that another killed a child; I guess their plan was to kill all the adults and leave the children to starve, or something. Needless to say, these aren’t the brightest bunch of killers. For example, they cut off the electricity in the town only to attack in broad daylight. This ineptitude mirrors that of the filmmakers, who take a premise that could might conceivably weight as social commentary and turn it into a Brazilian version of Hard Target — or Perseguição Sem Tréguas, as they call it there.