Brazil (1985)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1985
	Director: Terry Gilliam (Life of Brian, Twelve Monkeys, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen)
	Actors: Jonathan Pryce (The New World, Pirates of the Caribbean), Kim Greist, Robert de Niro (Casino, Machete, Heat, Jacky Brown), Ian Holm (Alien, The Lord of the Rings), Michael Palin (Life of Brian)
	Country: GB
	Genre: Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 05.08.2012. Blu-ray (director's cut), Home cinema
Synopsis: In a totalitarian future, a beaurocrat (Pryce) struggles to remain unnoticed. But his life is about to change as he meets other people who also apparently don't fit in the system.
Review: A friend told me years ago that his favorite 3 "anticipation" movies were Dark City, Naked Lunch and this Brazil. I quickly watched them and like the three. I had now the opportunity to appreciate again one of the best Terry Gilliam movie on Blu-ray and in the 143-minute version wanted by the director. You can feel the movie too long if you are not used to Gilliam's cinema or Monty Python's humor, or are tired when you watch it. But otherwise it is fine. It is a funny story taking place in a world clogged by beaurocracy, i.e. you need to fill in a mountain of paperwork for anything you do. So much that fixing somebody's air-conditionning without the right permit is considered terrorism! The movie contains some hilarious Monty-Python moments, mostly around the main charcter (Pryce) that finds himself in ridiculous and absurd situations. But the big strength of the movie is that behind this lightness still lies the criticism of a society with no freedom and total control of the people's life, to the point that they have to take bank credits to pay for their own interrogation by the Ministry Of Information (M.O.I.). And that is scary.
Rating: 8 /10