- dir. Terry Gilliam
- year. 1985
- country. UK
- run time. 132 min
- certificate. 15
£6 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 7pm - Film 8pm
If we had to define one film as Terry Gilliam's absolute masterpiece it would be Brazil. The plot seems so simple: a bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error, and becomes an enemy of the state. Yet Gilliam's style prevents this more being a simple tale of the little man against the State, as we follow Sam Lowry's journey through a bizarre, Kafta-esque world. All Sam wants to do is fly away and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams - when he meets her on his travels, things get even more complicated.
You can grab tickets to the other films in the season here:
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FGIFIL
- Lost in La Mancha https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FGIFKF
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FGIFKG
- The Zero Theorem https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FGIFKH
- Time Bandits https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FGIFLF
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FGIFLJ
“Gilliam’s dystopian epic remains among his best, blending his trademark visual inventiveness with a vicious brand of social satire. Unique and essential”
“The movie is awash in elaborate special effects, sensational sets, apocalyptic scenes of destruction and a general lack of discipline. It’s as if Gilliam sat down and wrote out all of his fantasies, heedless of production difficulties, and then they were filmed - this time, heedless of sense”
“TERRY GILLIAM’S ‘’Brazil,’’ a jaunty, wittily observed vision of an extremely bleak future, is a superb example of the power of comedy to underscore serious ideas, even solemn ones”