In times of war and reason, Baron Munchausen inspires with a story of a lifetime that bypasses reality and goes down the rabbit hole of evocative fantasy and mythical adventure.
From Constantinople to the moon, the centre of the Earth, the belly of the beast, and back, Baron Munchausen travels towards fabled worlds, encountering heroes and deities. Nostalgia, love, dreams, childhood innocence and hope rise up through Munchausen’s escapades. A social commentary inspired by the Odyssey… delineated in a British aristocratic manner.
As one of my first cinematic experiences, Terry Gilliam makes me reminisce about my childhood years and how I used to see the world. Where, like in the film, reality and imagination blend into one and shape a harmless world where even the abhorrent tragedy of war can be a lot easier to swallow, and man’s cruelty is tolerable.
John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams (unpaid and uncredited), and the rest of the cast shared Gilliam’s vision of a better world than ours and supported him in seeing it through, as the unfathomably humongous production complications wouldn’t stop appearing.
But reality’s misfortunes were defeated by prevalent, mythical will that projected it eventually to the silver screen.
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Solidarity for all the innocent lives who suffer the atrocities of war!
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