Black God White Devil

As a film, *Bacurau* is also very much aware of the tradition of the Brazilian Western or *cangaço* films, like *Black God, White Devil* (1964) by Glauber Rocha. And you see that it's dealing with that specific type of film and also commenting on the state of things.

City of God is the most internationally visible Brazilian film since Cinema Novo, and it carries that tradition's political commitment alongside its kinetic energy. Glauber Rocha's Cinema Novo manifesto demanded films about Brazilian poverty made with Brazilian aesthetic energy. Meirelles answered that call four decades later. But the direct ancestor is Pixote, Héctor Babenco's 1980 film about street children in São Paulo, which is rawer, more devastating, and less widely seen. Pixote is on MUBI.

City of God in turn shaped 6 films

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