David Farnor | On 18, Mar 2020

MUBI is bringing Bacurau’s subscription streaming release forward to tomorrow, in a surprise move to expand the Cannes-winning film’s reach.

The audacious, genre-blending siege thriller from Brazil’s Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles whisks us away to a small settlement in Brazil’s remote backcountry, which is shaken by the death of its elderly matriarch. But something strange is happening in the village, and there’s little time for mourning. The water supply has been cut off, animals are stampeding through the streets, and empty coffins are turning up on the roadside. One morning, the villagers wake up to find their home has disappeared from satellite maps completely. Under threat from an unknown enemy, Bacurau braces itself for a bloody, brutal fight for survival.

Starring Bárbara Colen, Udo Kier and Sonia Braga, the neo-Western revenge thriller was released in UK cinemas on 13th March, with the movie also available to stream on Curzon Home Cinema. Now, within a week of that debut, it’s coming to MUBI too – over a week sooner than its planned MUBI release of 27th March.

The move comes as MUBI also drops its price with a new promotional offer of three months for £1 to new subscribers. The offer is a standard offer that MUBI has used in other countries, with no expiry date and no link to the current coronavirus pandemic, although the timing is ideal for those looking to expand their home entertainment horizons with MUBI’s curated carousel of world cinema, which offers a revolving catalogue of 30 films, with one film dropping off and one film addd on each day.

Also coming to MUBI in the next month are Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Andrew Kötting’s documentary The Whalebone Box, a Joseph Losey retrospective and a Kurosawa double-bill. A subscription normally costs £9.99 a month, or £14.99 a month to include MUBI Go, which gives subscribers a free cinema ticket each week to a specified film at participating cinemas.

 

Trailer: Bacurau released by MUBI this March

17th February 2020

It’s only a matter of week now until MUBI releases Bacurau, and a new trailer gives us our first proper taste of what’s in store.

The subscription streaming service, which has increasingly ventured into theatrical distribution, acquired the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize Winner last year. It whisk away to Bacurau, a small settlement in Brazil’s remote backcountry, which is shaken by the death of its elderly matriarch. But something strange is happening in the village, and there’s little time for mourning. The water supply has been cut off, animals are stampeding through the streets, and empty coffins are turning up on the roadside. One morning, the villagers wake up to find their home has disappeared from satellite maps completely. Under threat from an unknown enemy, Bacurau braces itself for a bloody, brutal fight for survival.

Starring Bárbara Colen, Udo Kier and Sonia Braga, the neo-Western revenge thriller is directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles.

It will be released in cinemas by MUBI on 13th March, before being available to stream exclusively on the subscription service from 27th March. Here’s the new trailer:

 

MUBI announces March release for Cannes winner Bacurau

18th November 2018

Cannes winner Bacurau will be released in UK cinemas in March 2020, MUBI has announced.

The subscription streaming service, which has increasingly ventured into theatrical distribution, acquired the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize Winner earlier this year.

Bacurau, a small settlement in Brazil’s remote backcountry, is shaken by the death of its elderly matriarch. But something strange is happening in the village, and there’s little time for mourning. The water supply has been cut off, animals are stampeding through the streets, and empty coffins are turning up on the roadside. One morning, the villagers wake up to find their home has disappeared from satellite maps completely. Under threat from an unknown enemy, Bacurau braces itself for a bloody, brutal fight for survival.

Starring Bárbara Colen, Udo Kier and Sonia Braga, the neo-Western revenge thriller tips its hat to Sergio Leone and John Carpenter, with Kleber Mendonça Filho sharing directorial credit with long-time collaborator Juliano Dornelles.

MUBI debuted the film in the UK at the London Film Festival last month. Now, it’s confirmed it will follow that with a cinema release on 13th March 2020, before making it available to stream exclusively on MUBI from 27th March.

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