Brazil (Blu-ray) R
It's only a state of mind.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 4, 2012
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro & Michael Palin | |
Performer: | Kim Greist, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, Peter Vaughan, Jim Broadbent, Ian Richardson, Barbara Hicks & Charles McKeown | |
Directed by | Terry Gilliam | |
Edited by | Julian Doyle | |
Screenwriting by | Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard & Charles McKeown | |
Composition by | Michael Kamen | |
Art Direction by | John Beard & Keith Pain | |
Produced by | Arnon Milchan | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Pratt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Brazil is a stinging, Strangelovian satire of the power of the bureaucracy in an Orwellian landscape.
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ReelViews
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
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: 9/10 --
An energetically quirky social metaphor, political commentary and action/sci-fi farce all balled up into one outrageously enjoyable experience, provided you like the work of Terry Gilliam.
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IGN DVD
Rating: 5/5 --
Inventive, prophetic black comedy; lots of violence, mayhem.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 10/10 --
Brazil serves up one of the most breathtakingly imaginative worlds ever to be put on screen.
KPBS.org
[A] darkly funny and truly visionary retro-futurist fantasy.
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Wall Street Journal
Product Description:
BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. Cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, the cult-favorite film is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves. The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a government-sanctioned torturer with a distaste for upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls for.
The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular. Giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; and apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochramatic world. BRAZIL is a nightmare vision of the future, yet also hysterically funny and incisive, one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.
The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular. Giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; and apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochramatic world. BRAZIL is a nightmare vision of the future, yet also hysterically funny and incisive, one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.
Keywords:
Black Comedy
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Cult Film
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Futuristic
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Prison / Prisoners
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Politics
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Psychodrama
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On-The-Run
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Love Story
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Framed
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Disturbing
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Surreal
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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