Brazil

Director: Terry Gilliam

1985 / 142min / 4K DCP

Ground into despairing dust by his routine as a low-level bureaucrat in an Orwellian near-future—drabulously conceived as a junk shop jumble by art directors Norman Garwood and Maggie Gray—Sam (Jonathan Pryce) takes flight only in his imagination, where he plays the winged savior to distressed damsel Kim Griest. A chance teleprinter error at work and a wrongful arrest, however, set Sam on a course for real adventure, one involving his dream girl’s truck-driving double, a suspected terrorist (Robert De Niro), a freakshow cocktail party, plastic surgery disasters, and much more outlandishness besides. “A melancholy, joke-ridden view of the horribleness of where we are now and the worst horribleness of where we’re heading… It’s like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness.” —Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

Distributor: Universal

Part of The Office of Emptiness