Terry Gilliam (born 1940) is an American-born British film director and former member of Monty Python, known for highly visual, surreal and imaginative films.

Known for films such as Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote; often explores dream vs reality, satire of bureaucracy, and has had famously troubled productions.

Critics on DeBaser praise Gilliam's imaginative, surreal visual style and recurring themes of fantasy versus reality. Reviews highlight masterpieces like Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, acknowledge unevenness in some films, and often celebrate his persistence and cinematic ambition.

For:Fans of surreal, visionary and satirical cinema; readers interested in auteur filmmakers and imaginative, image-driven films.

 This is not a dark fairy tale: this is a film about imagining and the imaginative; and it is also a film heart-wrenching and incredibly moving, because Terry Gilliam's message is clear: imagination goes hand in hand with loneliness, more precisely, the more one is alone, the more an imagined reality becomes powerful, to the point of confusing and ascending to reality.

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 "The best science fiction movie ever made." Harlan Eleison

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 This film is an act of beauty, with no need for arguments to sanction its value.

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 Because it is a film that shows how the power of cinema, imagination, and stories is not at all something intangible, but rather something deeply physical and spiritual at the same time, an utterly timeless and limitless force, something we still need now more than ever, and something we will need forever.

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