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Most viewed. I emerged from this movie light-headed and euphoric, dizzy with rubbernecking at its monumental vastness. View image in fullscreen. Photograph: Courtesy: Venice Film festival. Van Buren Sr is initially furious at his idiot son presuming to get these scruffy foreigners to rebuild his library behind his back but then decides he is delighted by the bold modernist reimagining that makes the library look larger than it is.

It asks us to decide if and how the brutalism of the title applies to something other than architecture, and wonders about the future ruin of what we all imagine at the drawing board of youth: an American Ozymandias. ‘The Brutalist’ is an ambitiously grand and cinematically epic film about an immigrant architect who flees his European hometown with big American dreams and discovers its tragically high cost.

Explore more on these topics Film Peter Bradshaw's film of the week Adrien Brody Venice film festival The Brutalist Venice film festival Festivals Architecture reviews. This article is more than 11 months old. Given that neither Laszlo Toth, the geologist, nor Ernő Goldfinger, the Brutalist architect, is the basis for The Brutalist, it is worth considering why the film feels so much like it's based on a true story.

It stars Adrien Brody as a Jewish-Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who immigrates to the United States, where he struggles to achieve the American Dream. A visionary architect flees post-war Europe in for a brighter future in the United States and finds his life forever changed by a wealthy client.

“The Brutalist” is a work that incorporates well-known world history into two of the definitive forms of expression of the 20 th century in architecture and filmmaking, becoming a commentary on both capitalism and art. The Brutalist obviously takes something from Ayn Rand, but also from Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow in its depiction of the US immigrant adventure and the promise of success — but maybe Corbet and Fastvold go further and faster into how dizzyingly sensual and sexual it all is.

This is a film with thrilling directness and storytelling force, a movie that fills its widescreen and three-and-a-half-hour running time with absolute certainty and ease, as well as glorious amplitude, clarity and even simplicity — and yet also with something darkly mysterious and uncanny to be divined in its handsome shape.

It is an electrifying piece of work, stunningly shot by cinematographer Lol Crawley and superbly designed by Judy Becker. It is about antisemitism and the capitalist adventure, about the unassimilated immigrant experience and about American can-do naivety versus the tragic, painful depths of European culture and expertise.

That said, The Brutalist is a historical fiction drama inspired by the post-war architectural style known as Brutalist architecture, and the way it was inspired and shaped by the Holocaust. In a superb performance, Brody plays a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who comes to the US and begins a distinguished career under the patronage of a wealthy man.

His wife, Erzsébet Felicity Jones , and orphaned niece Zsófia Raffey Cassidy are marooned in Europe, caught in a bureaucratic muddle. It is the biopic of an imaginary Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor, László Tóth, who comes to the postwar US in poverty but begins, or rather revives, his distinguished career with the impulsive, eccentric patronage of a wealthy man with the Wasp-presidential name of Van Buren.

The Protestant locals are suspicious of Tóth as a Jew and costs overrun from the start despite Tóth telling his patron how cheap concrete is, as opposed to marble. The Brutalist is a epic period drama film directed and produced by Brady Corbet, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mona Fastvold.

When the pair of them finally visit the spectacular Carrara marble quarries — an extraordinary late sequence — it is another ill omen. Thrilling directness … Alessandro Nivola and Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Reuse this content. The Brutalist: Directed by Brady Corbet.

With Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn. It feels as if it must be based on a real-life case, or at least a literary source — but this is an original screenplay by Corbet and his co-screenwriter Mona Fastvold. His only male friend is Gordon played with dignity and restraint by Isaach de Bankolé , a widower, military veteran and single dad whom Tóth met in the bread line.

Historians and experts, along with the film's star and director, discuss how accurate the Oscars' best picture favourite The Brutalist is.