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Brazil (1985)


 
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Starring:
Jonathan Pryce | Robert DeNiro | Katherine Helmond | Ian Holm | Bob Hoskins | Michael Palin

Director:
Terry Gilliam

Genres:
Comedy | Sci-Fi

Languages:
English

Reviews:
6 reviews

Released:
Monday, May 19, 2003

  

BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves. The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a frightened worker bee terrified of upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls in love with. The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular: giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochromatic world. BRAZIL is a nightmare vision of the future, yet also hysterically funny and incisive--one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.
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4 out of 10 Entirely Original
Andrew from Dublin, 30 Jun 2007
A madcapped view on a future repressed by a totalitarianism goverment, its incredibly dark in places but typical british humour helps to lighten up the movie. Brilliant if you go into it with an open mind, terrible if your favourite movie is mean girls!
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2.5 out of 10 1984 with humour.
Una from Dublin, 11 Jul 2007
1984, but slightly funny. Not really that great, to be honest. With the cast involved I expected more.
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1.5 out of 10 Not recommended
John from Mayo, 25 Sep 2007
I really didn't enjoy this film, I though it was never going to end. The great cast is wasted.
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2.5 out of 10 brazil
ross from Wicklow, 06 Apr 2008
a crazy film that was great fun to watch no stranger than any other futuristic film i've seen
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2.5 out of 10 Arthouse
alan from Dublin, 02 Feb 2011
Not for me
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