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Brazil (1985)

Brazil (1985) directed by Terry Gilliam

Brazil (1985) | Review by Pauline Kael

05/07/2020

Brazil is the kind of ornery, intellectually fuzzy labor of love that is bound to strike some people as just about “the worst thing I’ve ever seen,” and perhaps it will affect others as a picture they want for their VCRs, so they can look at it over and over.

Brazil (1985) by Terry Gilliam

BRAZIL (1985) BY TERRY GILLIAM – REVIEW BY FRED GLASS

12/03/2019

Brazil is a tragicomedy about the relationship between imagination and fantasy, and about the ability of a society (“somewhere in the 20th century,” as the opening sequence informs us) to constantly transform the energy of the former into the dead weight of the latter.

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