Brazil
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- Synopsis
- 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 ......
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- Starring
- Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
- Director(s)
- Terry Gilliam
- Distributor(s)
- Universal
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 131 min.
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The New York Times | Janet MaslinAdd Critic to Favorites
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.Read the full review
Variety | Staff (Not Credited)Add Critic to Favorites
Chillingly hilarious.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Perhaps it is not supposed to be clear; perhaps the movie's air of confusion is part of its paranoid vision. There are individual moments that create sharp images (shock troops drilling through a ceiling, De Niro wrestling with the almost obscene wiring and tubing inside a wall, the movie's obsession with bizarre duct work), but there seems to be no sure hand at the controls.Read the full review
