"Brazil" at the NFT

Just in case you haven't enough to do this Christmas, here's something else for your diaries if you're interested:

The NFT is showing Terry Gilliam's Brazil on 23rd Dec at 20.15. This is one of my favourite films, and something that inspired my choice to direct Hothouse. It's a beautiful, surreal examination of bureaucracy gone mad and an example of the "steampunk" retro-future look. And generally just a blimmin' brilliant film.

"Gilliam's wondrously imaginative fable set in a faintly antiquated bureaucratic future suggestive of the surveillance nightmare of Orwell's '1984', and centred on Jonathan Pryce's clerk, a lovelorn dreamer beset by bad plumbing and illicit desires for a beautiful freedom-fighter. For all their artifice, the creation of both the 'real' and 'fantasy' worlds is utterly persuasive, so that the film succeeds both as metaphorical allegory and as an unexpectedly moving tale of one man's struggle for independence."

Blimey.

Set layout

This is roughly how things are going to look. The stairs have moved to the back, side on. The blocks on the floor indicate roughly where the audience seating might be. Roughly to scale, but obviously the furniture is only an approximation.

Thanks to Aidan for computery whizziness!