Kleber Mendonça Filho triumphed at Cannes in 2016 with the best movie of his careerm "Aquarius." That film was led by a mesmerizing performance from Sonia Braga and dealt with his native Brazil being invaded by gentrification. Filho’s latest, "Bacurau," is a whole other beast, an exercise in B-movie trappings which feels a little too facile, at least on surface and when compared to Mendoza's previous works.
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