Film schools ought to start forbidding aspiring directors, as early as possible, from introducing protagonists via wordless montages of their morning routine (I fully admit to having committed this sin in college myself). It’s not that we don’t get an...
Assuming it doesn’t take too long for the shock to wear off that Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighboring Sounds, Aquarius) has, along with co-director Juliano Dornelles, made an unabashed, committed, gory genre movie, it should very quickly become apparent that, for...
Something threatening hangs over the village of Bacurau, in western Pernambuco. But perhaps no one cares. After all, in the near future, it has been literally erased from the map. When the new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, this time...