White Wall Cinema: BRAZIL
TERRY GILLIAM 40TH ANNIVERSARY – CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
December 17 @ 6:50 pm – 10:30 pm
Originally known as the mad genius behind the “stomping foot” and other iconic animations for the legendary Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Terry Gilliam got his first taste of directing when he co-helmed the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1975. Over the following decades, Gilliam evolved into one of cinema’s great visionaries, a Hollywood outsider whose work stood firmly against the factory line of corporate moviemaking.
The story follows hapless low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowery (Jonathan Pryce – Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones), who repeatedly daydreams about rescuing the same beautiful woman. Just before Christmas (yes, it’s a kind of bizarre Christmas movie), Sam discovers an administrative error at work that has led to the accidental arrest, and subsequent death, of an innocent man, while the fugitive terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro) remains at large. As Sam tries to untangle the mess, he encounters the woman from his dreams (Kim Greist) and unintentionally turns himself into an enemy of the state. What follows is his hilarious and beautifully bizarre struggle to navigate a dystopian, polluted, hyper-consumerist, and suffocatingly bureaucratic world in the desperate hope of making sense of it all.
A landmark film brimming with unfettered visual imagination, Brazil remains a true masterwork, a madcap classic that, even 40 years later, fizzes with invention, relevance, and Gilliam’s signature brand of sharp, absurd, dark comedy. At once sad, uplifting, harrowing, and hopeful, it’s a true alternative Christmas treat. Don’t miss our special 40th-anniversary screening, which will conclude our 2025 film programme.
- DOORS: 6.50pm*
- START TIME: 7.20pm*
- RUN TIME: 142 mins
- CERT: 15 (Under 16’s must be accompanied by and adult)
*Please note – doors open at 6.50pm, Please try to allow extra time to get seated prior to the performance start time of 7.20pm. There will usually be no admittance from 20 minutes after the films stated start time. No hot food or alcohol from outside the premises is allowed. All alcoholic drinks consumed on the premises must be purchased from the bar as per the conditions of the venue’s licence
