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- Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn
- January 24th 2025
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- Brady Corbet
Adrien Brody plays an architect who flees Hungary after World War II and tries to build a new life for his family in America.
Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour drama The Brutalist is one of the top frontrunners this awards season. But what is it about and is it worth the time commitment?
This old-fashioned epic stars Adrien Brody as László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish architect who moves to America after World War II to try and build a new life for his family, who join him later.
After beginning his new U.S. life at his cousin Attila (Alessandro Nivola)’s furniture business, Tóth befriends wealthy industrialist Harrison Van Buren (Guy Pearce) and is commissioned to build a mammoth community centre by his Pennsylvania home.
The Brutalist is a bold and ambitious film with rich and complex themes such as the American Dream, capitalism and the treatment of immigrants.
It explores these big themes by focusing on the relationship between one immigrant family – László, his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) and his niece Zsófia (Raffey Cassidy) –...