“A few years from now…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.”
"Bacurau" will screen in the Official Competition. This year's jury is led by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu.
Kleber Mendonça Filho returns to Cannes since screening his well-received film "Aquarius" in 2016. The Brazilian filmmaker teams up with Juliano Dornelles to co-direct "Bacurau." This one looks to be a crowd-pleaser right out the gate.
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CATHERINE DENEUVE: CINEMA'S GRAND DAME
INGRID BERGMAN: THE LEGENDARY ROMANTIC
AGNES VARDA: VOYAGER OF LIGHT
PAUL VERHOEVEN: REBEL
FEDERICO FELLINI: MAESTRO
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER: THE MASTERBUILDER
DARREN ARONOFSKY: ASTRONOMER OF SENSES
WIM WENDERS: THE SEEKER
JACQUELINE BISSET: SEX SYMBOL
JOSEPH LOSEY: ENIGMA
LINA WERTMÜLLER: THE SOCIALIST AUTEUR
DAVID LYNCH: NEO-GOTHIC SLEEPWALKER
YASUJURO OZU: THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE
ISABELLE HUPPERT: LIBERTINE
STEVEN SPIELBERG: POPULIST
AKIRA KUROSAWA: PIONEER
TAKESHI KITANO: RENAISSANCE MAN
SOFIA COPPOLA: AUTEUR
ROBERT ALTMAN: SATIRIST
JIM JARMUSCH: OUTLIER
SAM PECKINPAH: LIBERATOR
KEN LOACH: SOCIAL REALIST
JOE CARNAHAN: THE BEST-KEPT SECRET
CATHERINE BREILLAT: TRANSGRESSOR
WERNER HERZOG: MENSCH
DAVID FINCHER: MODERNIST
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN: THE MUSCLE
JOHN CASSAVETES: INDIE ICON
LARS VON TRIER: PROVOCATEUR
QUENTIN TARANTINO: MAVERICK
ALFRED HITCHCOCK: MASTER OF SUSPENSE
LUIS BUNUEL: FETISHIST
Groupthink doesn't live here, critical thought does.
