The Brutalist
Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé
Director: Brady Corbet
Rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 215 min.

 

An ambitious post-war American epic, ‘The Brutalist’ with a 70mm format is a memorable immigrant experience. It’s a post-WWII horror. Adrien Brody is Laszlo Toth, a jewish architect who escaped the clutches of bloody Europe, and hopes to shape his dreams in a free America. ‘The Brutalist,’ much like the architectural style it's named after, is imposing, cold. The film, which chronicles the decades-spanning career of an ambitious architect, aims for epic grandeur. The opening sequence is in fact evocative of a hope born of ambition. We see Toth rush out of a crowd into sunlight and juxtaposed against that is an inverted Statue of liberty. Right from the start Brady Corbet is telling us where he intends to take this story to. But he is also smart enough to keep us guessing.