Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On one level, you could take Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ “Bacurau” as a serious political work about the ...

Last year’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner, “Bacurau,” is a provocative, bloody Brazilian genre mashup. It’s set in Western Pernambuco, “a few years from now,” in a realm of pulp fiction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bloody Brazilian riff on “The Most Dangerous Game,” the sinews of which are girded with so many allusions to local culture and ...

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Set in the scorching outback of northern Brazil in a small, cut-off town suffering from water shortages, "Bacurau", a contender for the top film prize at Cannes, is not ...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, John Carpenter’s cheeks should be flushing a shade of “aw shucks” red right around now. Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ new movie Bacurau ...

"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 ...

Bacurau, the latest film by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles—which gets a US release this weekend—uses the motif of the night bird to tell the story of a small village in the Brazilian ...

A truck runs over cheap-looking coffins on a dirt road, sending splintered wood flying. Signage for the town of ‘Bacurau’ flashes on the screen, under which are the words: “If you come, come in peace” ...

On one level, you could take Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ “Bacurau” as a serious political work about the exploitation of rural communities, the callous indifference of government and ...

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, ...