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.
7 April 1941, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
12 May 1958, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
August 31, 1922 in West Ham, London, England, UK
1946, Anglesey, Wales, UK
19 January 1957, Hertfordshire, England, UK
22 November 1940, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
13 July 1937, London, England, UK
21 April 1974, Barking, London, England, UK
20 November 1936, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
17 August 1943, New York City, New York, USA
27 July 1950, Charlton Park, Wiltshire, England, UK
5 May 1943, Ranmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
21 December 1937, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
4 April 1922, Purley, Surrey, England, UK
30 April 1947, Ripley, Derbyshire, England, UK
August1923, St George in the East, London, England, UK
14 November 1915, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England, UK
31 May 1918, Bognor Regis, Sussex, England, UK
7 April 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
29 July 1912, Ebbw Vale, Wales, UK
24 January 1930, Wanganui, New Zealand
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.
October 16, 2008
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
May 20, 2003
A superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas, even solemn ones.
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.
February 11, 2015
Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.
March 12, 2011
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
May 30, 2007
Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.
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.
April 18, 2008
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
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.
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.
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.
