Brazil

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    Brazil
    1985

    Synopsis

    Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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    Cast

    • Jonathan PryceSam Lowry
    • Kim GreistJill Layton
    • Robert De NiroArchibald 'Harry' Tuttle
    • Ian HolmMr. M. Kurtzmann
    • Bob HoskinsSpoor
    • Katherine HelmondMrs. Ida Lowry
    • Michael PalinJack Lint
    • Ian RichardsonMr. Warrenn
    • Peter VaughanMr. Helpmann
    • Jim BroadbentDr. Jaffe

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The New York Times

      Brazil may not be the best film of the year, but it's a remarkable accomplishment for Mr. Gilliam, whose satirical and cautionary impulses work beautifully together. His film's ambitious visual style bears this out, combining grim, overpowering architecture with clever throwaway touches.
    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      This modern cult classic is a triumphantly dark comedy directed by one of the film world's truly original visionaries, Terry Gilliam. "Imagination" is this futuristic film’s middle name.
    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      A ferociously creative 1985 black comedy filled with wild tonal contrasts, swarming details, and unfettered visual invention--every shot carries a charge of surprise and delight.
    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      One of those rare gems that prove equally stunning on both aesthetic and cerebral levels.
    • 100

      Film.com

      For all its occasional long-windedness and visual dazzle, Brazil may be the "Strangelove" of the 1980s.
    • 100

      San Francisco Examiner

      It's a glimmering hunk of fractured brilliance riddled with Orwellian paranoia encased in a production design seemingly pieced together from the shared dreams of Franz Kakfa and Salvador Dali, and shot from cruelly low angles.
    • 100

      Time

      There is not a more daft, more original or haunting vision to be seen on American movie screens this year... A terrific movie has escaped the asylum without a lobotomy. The good guys, the few directors itching to make films away from the assembly line, won one for a change. [30 Dec 1985, p.84]
    • 70

      TV Guide Magazine

      Blindingly obtuse, excessively morose, the film is nevertheless dazzling in its inventive and massive sets and spectacular in its techniques...A powerful work that is both bleakly funny and breathtakingly assured.

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