• You could spend quiet a lot of time just talking about the various genres used when trying to describe Bacurau – it is a mashup, probably more going on here in that respect that even Bong’s work
  • Bacurau is a fictional rural village in Brazil
  • Opens on a retro Portuguese pop song while we’re floating around in space (before floating in on Brazil”—“a few years from now”
  • The name of the school in the film is named after John Carpenter
  • Wide edits—which is more Kurosawa/Lucas than Carpenter

A split diopter at 26 minutes as Tony Junior approaches

  • Approaching topics like race very bluntly— “you’re more like white Mexicans”—“don’t speak Portuguese, speak English” and “Gringo tourists”- violence right next to laughs, with a political message all in the same 30-second scene
  • Kleber Mendonça Filho has made two  films before (Aquarius in 2016)– Juliano Dornelles (first film with directing credit) was his production designer on those previous films
  • The casting of Udo Kier as a German-born American citizen fits—he’s great with his piercing eyes—Kier has like 300 credits so he’s been in every genre, low and high art- but this casting here is probably more reminiscent of how S. Craig Zahler (genre master) uses him
  • Impossible not to think of Mad Max with the rural retro western dystopia
  • A couple of very nice dissolve edits- two I believe
  • Genre—a drone shaped like a UFO, kids chasing after a strange light at night, horses, motorbikes,
  • Coffins all over the place like Django – and of course we’re talking about hunting human beings for sport so we’re talking The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
  • Recommend but not close to the top 10 of 2019