Bacurau

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Movie
Original title Bacurau
Country of production Brazil , France
original language Portuguese , English
Publishing year 2019
length 132 minutes
Rod
Director Glue Mendonça Filho ,
Juliano Dornelles
script Glue Mendonça Filho,
Juliano Dornelles
production Emilie Lesclaux ,
Saïd Ben Saïd ,
Michel Merkt
music Mateus Alves ,
Tomaz Alves Souza
camera Pedro Sotero
cut Eduardo Serrano
occupation

Bacurau is a Mystery - science fiction drama from Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles that on 15 May 2019 as part of the International Film Festival of Cannes premiered there and compete for the Golden Palm competed. The film was released in Brazilian cinemas on August 29, 2019.

action

In a few years in the future in northeastern Brazil. The village of Bacurau is located in a dusty area, lined with rocky hills, and attracts only a few visitors. The village teacher has found that Bacurau can no longer be found on any map, especially the GPS-supported one. Clean water has to be delivered, but mayoral candidate Tony Jr., who is standing for re-election, promises to improve but only tries to bribe residents with rotten food and free prescription drugs. Only a rebel named Lunga tries to get real help and tries to divert water from the hinterland to Bacurau.

The villagers have gathered to pay their last respects to their Matriarch Carmelita, the 94-year-old village elder. Her granddaughter Teresa made it to the funeral just in time. When one of the tankers supplying Bacurau with water is shot at one day, disaster is announced. The villagers are targeted by a heavily armed group of mostly white Americans who want to shoot them like wild animals. They are led by the sinister Michael. The gringos feel superior to the inhabitants of Bacurau and only speak contemptuously about them, but they fight back more than expected.

production

Bar and film title

"Bacurau" is also the name of a species of night swallow

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles , who also wrote the script. Both come from the Sertão sub-region of the state of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil and came up with the story, including the eponymous city of Bacurau, which serves as an ultra-cynical political allegory and to which the film initially zooms in from space, a scene made with CGI was realized.

The name of the city and at the same time the title of the film are evidently based on the name of a crepuscular and nocturnal bird, the Bacurau, a species of night swallow, which in Brazil is also the common expression for the last bus that should not be missed. The flying insect hunters share the same ecological niche as the bats.

Script development

Mendonça Filho presented his film Aquarius in Cannes in 2016 and used his appearance on the red carpet to protest against the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff . He was then abused on social media and attacked by the press. This gave him a foretaste of how right-wing extremists act and how authoritarian thinking works, all of which went into Bacurau's script , according to Mendonça Filho. The director also explains that in early 2019 the Ministry of Culture was abolished in Brazil , which is a problem for all filmmakers in the country and is undermining the entire Brazilian film industry.

Cast, filming and score

Domingas, the city's doctor, is played by Sônia Braga . The American gringos who attack Bacurau are led by sinister Michael, played by Udo Kier . Teresa, the granddaughter of the deceased village elder, is played by Bárbara Colen . Thardelly Lima took on the role of Mayor Tony Jr. Silvero Pereira plays the rebel and Robin Hood blend Lunga.

The shooting took place in Sertão, Brazil. Pedro Sotero acted as cameraman, Thales Junqueira was responsible for the production .

The score was composed by Mateus Alves and Tomaz Alves Souza . Urânio released the soundtrack for download in mid-September 2019.

Marketing and Publishing

The film premiered on May 15, 2019 as part of the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival . A first trailer was presented shortly beforehand. In June 2019 he was presented at the Sydney Film Festival . At the end of June and beginning of July 2019 it was shown at the Munich Film Festival in the CineMasters competition. In July 2019 the film was presented at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival , in August 2019 at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Sarajevo Film Festival . A theatrical release in Brazil took place on August 29, 2019, in France it is planned for September 25, 2019. In September 2019 the film was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Contemporary World Cinema section. At the end of September and beginning of October 2019 it was shown at the New York Film Festival , also at the beginning of October 2019 at the London Film Festival and then at the Film Festival Cologne . The film was released in US cinemas on March 6, 2020.

reception

Reviews

The film has so far won over 91 percent of the Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7.7 out of a possible 10 points, placing it in the middle of the films presented in Cannes. In the critics' mirror of critic.de he received mostly positive reviews. In the critics' survey published by Screen on the festival entries in Cannes, he received 2.6 out of 4 possible points.

Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter writes that Bacurau is visually impressive and, with its anamorphic lens shots , split screens and side exits between scenes, deliberately reminds of the lush visual grammar of classic 1970s films. However, the neo- western never comes together as a satisfactory whole. Native Brazilians of the region and historians who study it would, however, appreciate how Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles fall back on the cangaceiro tradition of extravagantly dressed “socially outlaws” and more powerfully through the traces of coronelism and unjust rule Think oligarchs.

Peter Debruge of Variety explains Bacurau set foot quickly the realm of the surreal, which makes the film to his almost buñuelianischen sci-fi thriller, like a spaghetti western was filmed with comic zooms. Some shots were reminiscent of Sergio Leone's For a Fistful of Dollars , in which Clint Eastwood's character anticipates the impending orgy of violence by hiring the undertaker to make three coffins, according to Debruge. Initially, the film mainly focuses on the residents of Bacurau, until the script finally draws attention to Udo Kier's character. Debruge notes that while the filmmakers decided to focus on two women, despite the expectations that they might develop into film heroines, there is no central figure in the film.

Awards

As announced in mid-August 2019, Bacurau is in a shortlist of 12 films as a Brazilian entry for the 2020 Academy Awards . Further awards and nominations follow.

Film Festival Cologne 2019

Munich Film Festival 2019

Cannes International Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for the Golden Palm (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)
  • Nomination for the Queer Palm (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)
  • Awarded the Jury Prize (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Narcisse as best feature film in the international competition (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)

Sitges Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Best Film in the Official Fantàstic Competition (Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  • Award for the best director in the Official Fantàstic Competition (Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  • Received the Jose Luis Guarner Critics' Award
  • Awarded the Youth Jury Prize

Prix ​​Lumières 2020

  • Nomination for best international co-production (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)

Sydney Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Best Film for the Sydney Film Prize (Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Peter Debruge: Cannes Film Review: 'Bacurau'. In: Variety, May 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Cannes Film Festival: You shouldn't miss this crazy mix of genres. In: srf.ch, May 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b “Bacurau” - Interview with Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. In: arte.tv. Accessed March 31, 2020 (Video)
  5. ↑ Cannes 2019: Bacurau - a violent critique of Brazilian politics. In: France 24 on Youtube (video, English)
  6. ↑ Jenny Jecke: Bizarre and bloody: Bacurau is the first highlight of the Cannes festival. In: moviepilot.de, May 16, 2019.
  7. ↑ 'Bacurau' Soundtrack Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, September 13, 2019.
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  13. ↑ Kate Erbland: NYFF Announces 2019 Main Slate, Including 'Parasite', 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire', and More. In: indiewire.com, August 6, 2019.
  14. ↑ 63rd BFI London Film Festival program announced. In: bfi.org.uk, August 29, 2019.
  15. ^ Film Festival Cologne: Festival program. In: filmfestival.cologne. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
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  17. ↑ Cannes 2019 Movie Scorecard. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  18. ↑ Cannes critic's jury - Critic Mirror 2019. In: critic.de. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  19. ↑ Ben Dalton: Screen reveals Cannes 2019 jury grid critics. In: screendaily.com. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
  20. ↑ Note: Coronelism, the political, social and economic influence of the elitist big landowners, s. Thomas Bauer: Brazil's unforgivable genocide. In: fischundfleisch.com, October 2, 2015.
  21. ↑ Oscars: 12 Films Vie for Brazil's Candidacy. In: cinematropical.com, August 18, 2019.
  22. ↑ Best of Cinema Fiction. In: filmfestival.cologne. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  23. ^ Moritz Holfelder: Closing of the Munich Film Festival with a festive award ceremony. In: br.de, July 6, 2019.
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  25. ↑ The eagerly-awaited 'Ready or Not', the Lovecraftian 'Color Out of Space' and the Spanish-Argentinean co-production '4x4', leading off the preview of new Sitges 2019 titles. In: sitgesfilmfestival.com, August 30, 2019.
  26. ^ Emilio Mayorga: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's debut 'The Platform' Tops Sitges Awards. In: Variety, October 12, 2019.
  27. ↑ Les nominations 2020. In: academiedeslumieres.com. Retrieved December 3, 2019 (PDF; 256 KB)