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Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
In retrospect, I wouldnt have had it any other way.
Are we heading towards a gentle, humanist portrait of a town, sort of a Bill-Forsyth-goes-to-Brazil thing?
Modern technology is on the fritz the village disappears from Google, and everyones phones loses service.
Two motocross bikers pull into town, and may not be what they seem.
So instead, they did both.
Now, on Thursday, word is getting out.
At the American Pavilion, everyone was buzzing about that Brazilian movie.
Nobody described it exactly the same way, but today, they all got the name right.
*An earlier version of this piece misspelledBacurau.
It has been fixed throughout.
