Brazil: We’re All In It Together

Retrofuturistic, psychedelic, neo-noir fever dream? Surrealistic, dystopian black comedy? Paranoid, anti-totalitarian fantasy? Regardless of how critical analyses of the past forty years have attempted to classify the film, BRAZIL (1985, 143 min), the second film in Terry Gilliam's "escapism trilogy", is unquestionably the writer/director's masterpiece. Framed with Gilliam's staunch anti-totalitarian stance as well as his disdain for Reaganism/Thatcherism, the film won the 1985 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director and 1986 BAFTAs for Best Production Design and Special Visual Effects. 

In this class, together we’ll explore the history, politics, influences, artists and insane struggles behind the making of this colossal and underappreciated film.

This class will be taught by Assistant MMU Instructor Alice D'Amore. 

Enrollment is limited to 18 students.

Questions? Email us at education@moviemadness.org