08-23-2020, 08:49 AM
Strange happenings in a small remote village in Brazil. A woman travels back to her home village when her 100-year-old grandmother and matriarch dies. There, along with the villagers, she witnesses some strange happenings. Empty caskets appear at roadside, a couple of garish tourists on motorbikes pay a visit, there's mysterious UFO sightings, and very oddly the village Bacurau disappears from all online maps.
Among the cast is Sonia Braga, who pretty much stars in the early going. But Udo Kier, who doesn't appear until almost the 50-minute mark, takes center stage in the late goings.
This is a lurchy, shape-changing movie that at first doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. But there's lots of local color, and as it turns out the movie has its own bearings, and goes there on its own schedule.
I watched this with subtitles, of course, but in places was almost understanding some of the Spanish, until I realized that this is Brazil and therefore Portuguese (the "other Spanish"). Silly me.
This played at Cannes and won the the Jury Prize. Not certain what that signifies.
Apparently Udo Kier cried while watching the movie premiere at Cannes. He'd never done such a thing in his 50-year career. He said it wasn't anything in the movie, but just remembering the whole experience of filming it. That doesn't entirely explain things. My interpretation is that he was just appreciative of being given such a meaty role. He seems to have been marginalized in recent years, thrown scraps that can hardly be called bit parts. To think those light-blue orbits shed tears over this experience. Surely that warrants a watch.
Among the cast is Sonia Braga, who pretty much stars in the early going. But Udo Kier, who doesn't appear until almost the 50-minute mark, takes center stage in the late goings.
This is a lurchy, shape-changing movie that at first doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. But there's lots of local color, and as it turns out the movie has its own bearings, and goes there on its own schedule.
I watched this with subtitles, of course, but in places was almost understanding some of the Spanish, until I realized that this is Brazil and therefore Portuguese (the "other Spanish"). Silly me.
This played at Cannes and won the the Jury Prize. Not certain what that signifies.
Apparently Udo Kier cried while watching the movie premiere at Cannes. He'd never done such a thing in his 50-year career. He said it wasn't anything in the movie, but just remembering the whole experience of filming it. That doesn't entirely explain things. My interpretation is that he was just appreciative of being given such a meaty role. He seems to have been marginalized in recent years, thrown scraps that can hardly be called bit parts. To think those light-blue orbits shed tears over this experience. Surely that warrants a watch.
I'm nobody's pony.