Brazil

The Musical Love Story of Pan-America!
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DVD Details

  • Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 6, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1944
  • Label: Olive Films

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 102,876
Rating: 10/10 -- Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
KPBS.org
Apr 19, 2008
Rating: 3/4 -- Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape. Full Review
ReelViews
Oct 16, 2008
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. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
Rating: 5/5 -- 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. Full Review
Movie Talk
Dec 20, 2011
Rating: B+ -- 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. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Apr 10, 2009
Terry 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. Full Review
Chicago Reader
May 30, 2007
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy. Full Review
Wall Street Journal
Mar 12, 2011

Product Description:

BRAZIL is perhaps the best of the handful of American films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson (Virginia Bruce), who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, WHY MARRY A LATIN' While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares (Guizar). Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but BRAZIL was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.

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  • UPC: 887090130219
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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