Film Review Cinema & Architecture - BRAZIL

Tuesday 27th of May will see the last appointment of the Cinema & Architettura Review –“Modernity\Conflict”, organised by the Department of Architecture in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna. The review will take place at Cinema Modernissimo.

BRAZIL

(USA/1985) di Terry Gilliam (131')

Tuesday 27th May 2025 - 9.30 p.m. 

Introduced by Professor Maura Savini

The film will be in the original language with subtitles in Italian

In a time that "is neither future nor past, yet a bit of both, on the border between Los Angeles and Belfast, whatever that means", Sam Lawry is a modest employee looking for the woman who appeared to him in a dream and with whom he immediately fell in love. Chasing her, he will experience the grip of a highly bureaucratized and mechanized state system, where rules and protocols feed on themselves, controlling every aspect of life, almost to the point of suffocating it. Thus, in this world dominated by the ruthless cynicism of the powerful, even repairing the control pipes hidden behind every wall of one's home constitutes an act of revolt, the refusal to give in to an inhuman system and the first gesture of undermining the present-future outlined by Gilliam, from which Sam Lawry wants to escape.

Location: Cinema Modernissimo, via Rizzoli 1 / 2, Bologna

Tickets:

• Free of charge for the first 50 students of the Building Engineering-Architecture, Architecture-Engineering and Building Engineering-Architecture courses who collect their tickets at the Film Library Bookshop on presentation of their student ID and course enrolment certificate for the year 2024/25 (Info Bookshop hours: https://cinetecadibologna.it/luogo/bookshop-della-cineteca-di-bologna/). 

After the 50 free tickets, students will still be able to join by purchasing a ticket at the box office.

• 3.50 euros for all Unibo students (at the box office)
• 6 euros full ticket price

Please give your name for registration when entering the Cinema Modernissimo.

We kindly ask you to collect free tickets only if you truly intend to attend the screening, so as not to deprive others of the opportunity to see the film for free!

Review Link: https://eventi.unibo.it/cinema-architettura

For any queries write to marta.cannizzaro2@unibo.it