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Brazil
Why this pick
Gilliam’s bureaucratic nightmare pairs similarly baroque production design with a lonely protagonist trying to retain imagination and humanity inside an absurd, invasive system.
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MOVIE2013 1h 47m GBR
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Why this pick
This off-kilter existential comedy finds melancholy beneath a wildly artificial premise, using peculiar workplaces and skewed architecture to make identity feel unstable and absurd.
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The Congress
Why this pick
It moves from corporate control to a hallucinatory digital future with bold visual shifts, retaining the same uneasy fascination with technology, identity, and manufactured escape.
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Qohen Leth, an eccentric programmer who refers to himself in the plural, is assigned to "crunch entities" for a company named Mancom. Finding himself suffering existential angst, Qohen constantly waits for a phone call, hoping that it might bring him happiness or the answers he seeks. When Qohen requests a "disability" evaluation, three company doctors determine that he is physically healthy, but require he have therapy from Dr Shrink-Read-only memory, an Artificial intelligence therapist designed to provide mental evaluation. Wanting to meet with "Management", Qohen attends a party held by his supervisor, Joby. Stumbling into an empty room, Qohen finds Management and requests to work from home, as he would be more productive and would no longer risk missing his call; Management simply notes he finds Qohen "quite insane," but later grants his request. Qohen is pressed into staying at the party by Joby, but chokes on an olive and is rescued by Bainsley, a partygoer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
David Thewlis
Joby
Lucas Hedges
Bob
Ben Whishaw
Doctor 3
Tilda Swinton
Dr. Shrink-Rom
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Doctor 1
Gwendoline Christie
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Matt Damon
Management
Peter Stormare
Doctor 2