Review first published by Film4 Synopsis: Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott) directs this British-Brazilian co-production in which three trash-sorting boys take the money and run. Review: A young Brazilian boy (Rickson Teves) aims a gun, his hands trembling. “Kill him, Raphael!”, urges another from offscreen. It is an arresting opening to Stephen Daldry’s Trash, reminiscent of…
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The Zero Theorem (2013)
Review first published by EyeforFilm We have been here before. If Terry Gilliam’s greatest film Brazil (1985) dealt with an ordinary man’s search for identity, love and dreams in a shabbily oppressive, Kafkaesque dystopia, then his latest, The Zero Theorem, treads much the same ground, while updating it to our weird, wired world. Our everyman…