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Brazil
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.
22 November 1940, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1946, Dudley, Worcestershire, England, UK
19 January 1935, Glascote, Staffordshire, England, UK
14 November 1915, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England, UK
December 7, 1974 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
13 May 1948, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
5 May 1943, Ranmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
April 18, 2008
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
May 20, 2003
A superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas, even solemn ones.
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.
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.
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.
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.
October 16, 2008
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
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.
May 30, 2007
Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.
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.
March 12, 2011
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
February 11, 2015
Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.