Troubled Brazil ‘feels like a dystopia’, top director tells Cannes

Life in Brazil under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro feels like a "dystopia", top Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho said Thursday after his dark, satirical Western "Bacurau" premiered at Cannes. Set a few years in the future and shot in an impoverished, isolated area of northeastern Brazil, the film tells the story of a village upended by the death of its 94-year-old matriarch which ends up becoming the target of white supremacist hunters. Mendonca's third feature, which was co-directed by Juliano Dornelles and is running for the coveted Palme d'Or, is a reflection of Brazil's struggles under Bolsonaro, who is fighting an ultra-conservative ideological battle that has...

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