BACURAU (2019) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Thomas Aquino, Bárbara Colen, Sonia Braga,
Udo Keir, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima,
Antonio Saboia, Clebia Sousa, Karine Teles
A man and a woman in a truck carrying water to their dry Brazilian village pass the scene of an accident. Another truck has hit a motorcycle, the cyclist is dead on the pavement, and the truck has tipped over, spilling its cargo of coffins. (Another motorist stops to buy a couple.) Next, we're in the village, where a 94-year-old woman, the local matriarch, is about to be buried. There's the funeral, and then things start to get weird. The village disappears from the G.P.S. maps as if it didn't exist, a drone that looks like a flying saucer appears overhead, people start turning up murdered, and all of it's connected to a small commando unit of gringo killers who are turning the village and its surrounding countryside into a recreational shooting gallery. How can the townspeople counter that? You'll see. Some of the details in this go unexplained, but it doesn't matter. What locks you in is its strangeness and its grim sense of humor and the down-to-earth realism with which it's shot. Plus, the commander of the commandos is Udo Keir. Psychotic villains who shoot people for the fun go it don't get much crazier and creepier than that.
