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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tito Guízar & Virginia Bruce | |
Performer: | Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston, Fortunio Bonanova, Richard Lane, Frank Puglia, Aurora Miranda & Roy Rogers | |
Directed by | Joseph Santley | |
Edited by | Fred Allen | |
Art Direction by | Russell Kimball | |
Director of Photography: | Jack A. Marta |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 10/10 --
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
KPBS.org
Rating: 3/4 --
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
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ReelViews
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.
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Time Out
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.
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Movie Talk
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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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Chicago Reader
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
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Wall Street Journal
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
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