Bacurau was the stand out genre film at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The Brazilian-French co-production shared the Jury Prize with the tough French suburban drama Les Miserables. The Cannes Film Festival this year had a distinctive genre bent, initially heralded by Jim Jarmusch’s opening film, The Dead Don’t Die. Though many of the genre films were the product of young French producers who are keen to set the country’s traditional arthouse cinema on a new track. Or at least inject some undead into the proceedings. Two women producers Judith Lou Levy and Eve Robin …
Bacurau was the stand out genre film at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. The Brazilian-French co-production shared the Jury Prize with the tough French suburban drama Les Miserables. The Cannes Film Festival this year had a distinctive genre bent, initially heralded by Jim Jarmusch’s opening film, The Dead Don’t Die. Though many of the genre films were the product of young French producers who are keen to set the country’s traditional arthouse cinema on a new track. Or at least inject some undead into the proceedings. Two women producers Judith Lou Levy and Eve Robin …