Bacurau

press release: The UW Cinematheque has added a screening of the 2019 Brazilian thriller Bacurau to our spring calendar of events on Saturday, April 23, at 2 p.m. Co-director and co-screenwriter Kleber Mendonça Filho will join us in person to introduce Bacurau, and answer questions following this special screening. Bacurau was originally scheduled to screen in March of 2020 at the Cinematheque, but the screening was cancelled due to the COVID-19 lockdown. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s acclaimed feature Aquarius, screened at the Cinematheque in 2017.  

Brazil | 2019 | DCP | 132 min. | English and Portuguese with English subtitles  

Director: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho 

Cast: Bárbara Colen, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier 

Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, this searing political riff on The Most Dangerous Game is the most talked-about Brazilian film of recent years. An isolated outback community notices their town has vanished from digital maps, followed by the unnerving presence of a drone overhead. When a wealthy band of armed mercenaries (led by Kier) starts picking them off, the underclass bands together to save what little they have. "A modern-day western with some of the raw, hallucinatory power of a Sergio Leone epic. Rich and extremely filling" (Los Angeles Times). Co-director and co-screenwriter Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius, Neighboring Sounds) will join us in person to introduce Bacurau, and answer questions following this special screening. Presented with the Support of the UW Madison Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Anonymous Fund. Special Thanks to Kathryn Sanchez.