The Coolidge Corner Theatre

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"Mistakes? We don't make mistakes."

Ducts, ducts, miles of ducts. Aqueducts, flexi-ducts, viaducts and plenty of quacks. When Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is tasked with attempting to rectify a paperwork error that ended up in the wrongful death of Archibald Buttle instead of suspected terrorist Archibald Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he enters a government world where bureaucratic red-tape is eaten for breakfast and a straight answer could get you killed.

Terry Gilliam's dystopian retro-noir tale is all too familiar as we depend more and more on technology to make decisions for us. With hints of Orwell, Huxley and Philip K. Dick, BRAZIL ranks high in the pantheon of great speculative fiction - especially this extended director's cut.

dir. Terry Gilliam, w/ Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, 2h12m, 35mm