'Bacurau,' 'Les Misérables' and 'Deerskin' shake up Cannes with visions of violence
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2019
4 minutes
CANNES, France - Times critic Justin Chang is filing regular dispatches from the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 14-25 in France.
"Do you want to live or die?"
The question - and the answer - land with brutal force in "Bacurau," the strange and harrowing Brazilian feature that shook up the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. It may sound like a threat, but it isn't presented as one; the man asking the question is doing so with the utmost sincerity. In a futuristic social order where the slaughter of human beings has become a transactional, recreational activity, death very well may be preferable to life.
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