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Bacurau

Bacurau

7,6 /10 (1,144 Votes)
2019 PT 131 min

Overview

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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Release date

29/08/2019

Votes

1,144

Popularity

1.7

If you come, come in peace

Status

Released

Language

PT

Runtime

131 min

Budget

$1,430,000

Revenue

$3,554,178

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2022-08-26

⭐ 1

With over 200 credits on his résumé — often as a vampire or vampire-adjacent —, revered German actor Udo Kier has appeared in some very good films as well as some very bad ones; Bacurau, a retarded A Sound of Thunder/The Most Dangerous Game hybrid ripoff, falls in the latter category. The beginning is more or less promising. Tony Jr. (Thardelly Lima), mayor of the Sierra Verde municipality, to which Bacurau (which may or may not be the Portuguese word for 'bumf---') belongs, has blocked the dam and put it under the care of armed guards. His reason for doing this, though, is not very cle…

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