Bacurau
Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles / Brazil, France / 2019 / 131 Min
Date: Friday, October 6, 2023
Time: 5:30 PM – Film Viewing
7:20 PM – Post-film discussion with director Juliano Dornelles and panel (Dr. Sandra Sousa, and Holly McDonald).
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Location: UCF Main Campus / Nicholson COM 101
SYNOPSIS
English and Portuguese with English subtitles
With Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima, Rubens Santos, Wilson Rabelo, Luciana Souza, Karine Teles, Antonio Saboia, Carlos Francisco.
ACADEMY AWARD® BRAZIL’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
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 (among them Sônia Braga) 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 led by Udo Kier 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.
Award-winning and critically acclaimed, Bacurau is a box office sensation seen in Brazil by over a million people.