sentences:  Jack Mathews, a film critic and the author of "The Battle of Brazil" (1987), described the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving Gilliam crazy all his life".The film is named after the recurrent theme song, Ary Barroso's "Aquarela do Brasil", known simply as "Brazil" to British audiences, as performed by Geoff Muldaur.Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North America release.