Brazil
Dir: Terry Gilliam
UK／USA, 1985, 143 minmins, DCP
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro
Battling oppressive bureaucracy of the totalitarian state, a docile officer falls into romantic fantasies with a mysterious beauty who is classified as a terrorist, and into a series of hellish nightmares as he tries to rescue her. Echoing Gilliam’s own off-screen strife with the monolithic MCA whom he fought for the right to final cut, this retro-futuristic classic combines George Orwell’s dystopian vision of 1984 with Federico Fellini’s imagination in 8½ (1963), yet blending his vicious brand of social satire à la Monty Python with an ambitious visual inventiveness. A prophecy of an extremely bleak future, or a present moment reminder that life under paranoia and control is actually real?
Academy Awards: Best Writing and Best Art Direction Nominations
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay
2/11 (SAT): Film talk with Thomas Shin
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Buy Ticket 2019-11-02 (Sat)
20:00Door Tickets Available at the Venue on Screening Date 2019-12-14 (Sat)
14:45
K11 Art House
Tai Kwun
Chinese Subtitles
Post-screening talk
Remarks
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