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Actor: Jim Broadbent, John Flanagan, Kim Greist, Ray Cooper (II), Robert De NiroBrand: Universal
Primary Contributor: Robert De Niro
Primary Contributor: Kim Greist
Primary Contributor: Jonathan Pryce
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Brazil
Movie Review: THE FUTURE HAS OVERTAKEN US!
Summary: 5 Stars
No matter how many times I re-view this movie, I'm captivated by the it's emotonal realism, its hideous beauty, its magnificent sound and its music, and the wonderful acting of the ensemble. But more than any of that, I'm astonished by the inescapable realization that the most intensely unpleasant aspects of what was intended as a satirical pre-view of the futue, has, in the two and a half decades since its inception, come to mordant life. Our dim suspiscion of a decadent idiocy arising from an inbred society of rich money-changers, ruled by an inexpressibly foul and paracitic bureaucratic class rotten with envy, suspiscion and indifference to human suffering, has grown into an inescapable fact of contemporary life. Alas!
But how was BRAZIL conceived? How executed? The mystery of Terry Gilliam's methods (and funding) remain opaque, but the magic of his mastery over the medium grows in a splendor that is dark and excruciating, but irresistable.
What excuse is there for not having viewed this film at leasst once? I cannot conceive of any.
Summary of Brazil
The nightmarish futuristic satire brazil effectively blurs all lines between illusion and reality. Jonathan pryce plays a government statistician who chooses to blind himself to the decaying world around him. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/09/2007 Starring: Jonathan Pryce Katherine Helmond Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R Director: Terry GilliamIf Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus--this is the sort of outrageously dystopian satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug (no doubt related to Kafka's famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr.?Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De?Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unraveling this bureaucratic glitch, he himself winds up labeled as a miscreant.
The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of 20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded studio management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it. This DVD version of Brazil is the special director's cut that first appeared in Criterion's comprehensive (and expensive) six-disc laser package in 1996. Although the DVD (at a fraction of the price) doesn't include that set's many extras, it's still a bargain. --Jim Emerson
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