Brazil (1985)
Average Rating: 8.7/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 1
Brazil, Terry Gilliam's visionary Orwellian fantasy, is an audacious dark comedy, filled with strange, imaginative visuals.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 1
Brazil, Terry Gilliam's visionary Orwellian fantasy, is an audacious dark comedy, filled with strange, imaginative visuals.
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Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild, visually audacious satire, Gilliam combines dystopian elements from Orwell, Huxley and Kafka (plus a central character who mirrors Walter Mitty) with his own trademark, Monty Python-esque, jet black
Feb 20, 1985 Wide
Mar 31, 1998
Universal Pictures
Cast
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Jonathan Pryce
Sam Lowry -
Michael Palin
Jack Lint -
Kim Greist
Jill Layton -
Robert De Niro
Harry Tuttle -
Katherine Helmond
Ida Lowrey -
Ian Holm
Kurtzman -
Ian Richardson
Warren -
Peter Vaughan
Helpmann -
Bob Hoskins
Spoor -
Derrick O'Connor
Dowser -
Charles McKeown
Lime -
Barbara Hicks
Mrs. Terrian -
Kathryn Pogson
Shirley -
Jim Broadbent
Dr. Jaffe -
Jack Purvis
Dr. Chapman -
Bryan Pringle
Spiro -
Sheila Reid
Mrs. Buttle -
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Priest -
Anthony G. Brown
Porter Information Retr... -
Patrick Connor
Cell Guard -
Derek Deadman
Bill Department of Work... -
Winston Dennis
Samurai Warrior -
John Flanagan
TV Interviewer/Salesman -
Simon Jones
Arrest Official -
Howard Lew Lewis
2nd Black Maria Guard -
Diana Martin
Telegram Girl -
Brian Miller
Mr. Buttle -
Simon Nash
Boy Buttle -
Prudence Oliver
Girl Buttle -
Nigel Planer
Charlie Department of W... -
Oscar Quitak
Interview Official -
Ann Way
Old Lady with Dog -
Ray Cooper
Technician -
Terry Forrestal
Burning Trooper -
Myrtle Devenish
Typist in Jack's Office -
Holly Gilliam
Holly -
John Pierce Jones
Basement Guard -
Tony Portacio
Neighbor in Clerk's Poo... -
Elizabeth Spender
Alison/Barbara Lint -
Gorden Kaye
M.O.I. Lobby Porter -
Don Henderson
1st Black Maria Guard -
Sadie Corre
Midget Woman
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All Critics (45) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (1) | DVD (26)
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
Brazil offers a chillingly hilarious vision of the near-future.
Top CriticTerry 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.
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.
Top CriticA superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas, even solemn ones.
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.
Criterion continues to show enduring love for Terry Gilliam's wondrous magnum opus with their generous Blu-ray package, sporting a naturally dazzling A/V transfer and a bounty of fascinating, essential extras.
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.
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.
Gilliam at his incomparable best - a glorious, elegant mess.
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.
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
Brazil -- a black comedy that remains ahead of its time -- is one of the most audacious fantasies ever made.
The bleak Brazil reaches for greatness but just falls short.
If anyone ever doubts the visionary significance of Terry Gilliam's once bright genius as a filmmaker of enormous depth and cynical humor, you need only to visit upon his career-topping 1985 masterpiece of surreal satire.
Gilliam's Orwellian vision is memorable and distinctive
Audience Reviews for Brazil
Super Reviewer
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- TV Interviewer/Salesman: How do you account for the fact that the bombing campaign has been going on for thirteen years?
- Helpmann: Beginners' luck.
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- Mrs. Terrian: There's been a little complication with my complication.
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- Dr. Jaffe: Just me and my little knife! Snip snip - slice slice... can you believe it?
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- Jill Layton: Care for a little necrophilia?
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- Mrs. Buttle: What have you done with his body?
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- Harry Tuttle: Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork.
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Foreign Titles
- Brasil (ES)

