KINO: Brazil – 35mm

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Listen kid, we're all in it together! Imagine a world ran by an information-obsessed government; bloated by bureaucracy; polluted to the brink of extinction; controlled with hyper-surveillance -- a world where consumerism has run rampant to the point where you either succumb to it, or seek refuge in dreams and visions of escape to some foreign, other world... wow –– a world that would be, ey? Glad we don’t live in such a world, eh? Gilliam takes the hellish consumerist direction the world tended towards in the 80s, to an absurdist, comical extremity with his masterful 1985 film Brazil. We meet Sam Lowry, a bureaucrat of lesser rank, who ends up in the midst of an ongoing terrorist plot against the surveillance state, after accidentally making a clerical error in a report he was working on. This premise combined with Gilliams ever-so vibrant cinematic style, at the height of his commercial relevance, leads to a magnificent piece of cinema that is as relevant today as it ever was. Terry Gilliam UK 1985 35mm 132 min English dialogue, Norwegian subtitles Written by Henrik Bernhard Stangeland