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9:10 pm - “Brazil: The Director’s Cut”
December 3, 2023 @ 9:10 pm - 11:10 pm
“It’s like a stoned, slapstick 1984: a nightmare comedy in which the comedy is just an aspect of the nightmarishness.”
— Pauline Kael
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In the dystopian masterpiece Brazil, Jonathan Pryce plays a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy.
This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam, one of the great films of the 1980s, has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And in terms of set design, cinematography, music, and effects, Brazil is a nonstop dazzler.
“A Christmas movie for the rest of us, the people trying to get by in a world gone temporarily more insane than usual without succumbing to the madness.”
— Film School Rejects