Each country comes with a complex history. Primarily in Latin America, it’s stories of being invaded, beaten and colonized. Within these incidents, there are tales of people fighting back and standing ...

I didn’t attend Cannes in 2009, but what I’ve come to understand to be that year’s Official Selection highlight—namely, Alain Resnais’s delirious late masterpiece Wild Grass—is precisely the kind of ...

The latest Cannes competition contender from 'Aquarius' director Kleber Mendonca Filho, 'Bacurau' is a violent neo-Western folk tale set in a small Brazilian village. By Stephen Dalton Flying saucers, ...

One of the pleasures of Cannes is stumbling into a film that you know absolutely nothing about and emerging with a new favorite. On Wednesday night, after a screening of Deerskin (a movie where Jean ...

Set “a few years from now,” “Bacurau” is gloriously unworldly. It starts in space, ends with the apparition of a ghost, and is fueled by premonition. As co-directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and ...

A water truck bumps along pot-holed asphalt and then dirt roads. The driver maneuvers around a traffic accident in which a motorcyclist lies dead and a truck has spilled its load of coffins. The ...

"This world is upside-down." Vitrine Filmes has released a full-length official trailer for the Brazilian film Bacurau, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and won the Jury ...

From Bacurau (2019), dirs. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (image courtesy New York Film Festival) “A few years from now,” Teresa (Bárbara Colen) returns to her remote hometown of Bacurau ...

"Do you want to live or die?" SBS Distribution has unveiled an official promo trailer for the Brazilian film titled Bacurau, which is premiering at the Cannes Film Festival starting this week. This ...

Bacurau was the stand out genre film at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The Brazilian-French co-production shared the Jury Prize with the tough French suburban drama Les Miserables. The Cannes Film ...

Kino Lorber has scooped North American rights to the Cannes Film Festival’s jury prize winner “Bacurau,” a Brazilian western thriller directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Mendonca ...

IN 2018, when Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election, outside observers feared that his proposed public-spending cuts would hurt the country’s creative sector—particularly the film industry ...