A daydreaming clerk is trapped inside a nightmarish bureaucracy in Terry Gilliam’s dazzling dystopian satire.
In Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL, a mild-mannered office worker escapes the machinery of a suffocating state through vivid romantic fantasies. But when a bureaucratic error pulls him into a world of surveillance, paperwork and absurd cruelty, dreams and reality begin to collapse. A visually astonishing dystopian satire, it remains one of the great films of the 1980s.
Rialto Recommends BRAZIL is a wild, brilliant and darkly funny vision of bureaucracy as nightmare. Terry Gilliam builds a world of ducts, desks, forms and impossible systems, then sets one fragile dreamer loose inside it. Visually spectacular, politically sharp and gloriously strange, it sits alongside the great anti-totalitarian works as cinema of imagination, warning and revolt.
Cast
Jonathan Pryce (Sam Lowry), Robert De Niro (Harry Tuttle), Michael Palin (Jack Lint)
Director
Writer
Language
English
Subtitles
English
Countries
United Kingdom, United States
Studio
New Regency