A vibrant backcountry Brazilian village finds its sun-drenched day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants become the targets of a group of armed mercenaries, sent by a corrupt government to divert their water. The perpetrators of this class warfare, however, may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of Bacurau. Doubtless filmed in response to the Bolsonaro regime, this ultra-violent revisionist Westers captures the exhilaration of society’s forgotten and marginalized standing up for themselves with style. Recalling the works of Akira Kurosawa, John Carpenter, and Sergio Leone, Bacurau, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a vividly angry power-to-the-people fable like no other.

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