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Brazil
Description
The film is a surrealist nightmare of a low-level bureaucrat in a dismal world of the near future when he tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
The film is a surrealist nightmare of a low-level bureaucrat in a dismal world of the near future when he tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
Actors:
Patrick Connor,
Nicole Appleton,
Sheila Reid,
Brian Miller,
John Flanagan,
John Pierce Jones,
Derek Deadman
Patrick Connor
6 August 1926, Margate, Kent, England, UK
Nicole Appleton
December 7, 1974 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Sheila Reid
21 December 1937, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Brian Miller
John Flanagan
30 April 1947, Ripley, Derbyshire, England, UK
John Pierce Jones
1946, Anglesey, Wales, UK
Derek Deadman
11 March 1940, Fulham, London, England, UK
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Bob Hoskins #Brazil (1985) #Ian Holm #Ian Richardson #Jonathan Pryce #Katherine Helmond #Kim Greist #Michael Palin #Peter Vaughan #Robert De Niro #Terry Gilliam
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April 10, 2009
Influenced by Kafka, Orwell, and Kubrick, Gilliam's darkly humorous futuristic satire is narratively flawed and excessive in many ways, but it displays its creator's wildly vivid imagination and is intermittently witty.December 08, 2012
Brazil is this unique amalgamation of ideas straight out of Terry Gilliam's head that results in something so strange and so unique that it's just genius with a conclusion that is undeniably haunting.May 30, 2007
Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.
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April 18, 2008
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.May 30, 2007
Terry Gilliam's ferociously creative black comedy is filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention -- every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight.February 11, 2015
Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.March 12, 2011
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.January 29, 2012
An energetically quirky social metaphor, political commentary and action/sci-fi farce all balled up into one outrageously enjoyable experience, provided you like the work of Terry Gilliam.February 09, 2006
Fortunately the story of an alternative future is realised with such visual imagination and sparky humour that it's only half way through that the plot's weaknesses become apparent.December 20, 2011
Gilliam crams the screen with such a proliferation of bizarre and comic details that you'll want to revisit this particular nightmare again and again.October 16, 2008
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
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May 20, 2003
A superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas, even solemn ones.