The Brutalist

Local title
Brutalist
Director
Brady Corbet
Country
USA, United Kingdom, Hungary
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Screen International Critics' Choice
Genre
historical drama
Subject
society, history, architecture

Brady Corbet’s meticulous drama centres around a Hungarian architect in 1940s America.

Wits may joke that the most brutal thing about Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is its formidable running time. That uncompromising factor apart, there is nothing specifically brutal in execution or content about Corbet’s drama, the title referring to the architectural style practised by the film’s hero, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect, László Tóth, who emigrates to the US in 1947. “The Monumentalist” might have been a better title, certainly as regards the ambition of the film’s ferociously individual writer-director – a dissident among American cineastes, whose allegiances are primarily to the European tradition at its most rigorous.

Jonathan Romney, Screen International

Director
Brady Corbet
Screenwriter
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
Cast
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde, Guy Pearce
Producer
Nick Gordon, D.J. Gugenheim, Andrew Lauren, Trevor Matthews, Andrew Morrison, Brian Young
Cinematographer
Lol Crawley
Music
Daniel Blumberg
World sales
Protagonist Pictures
Runtime
Language
Italian, Hebrew, Hungarian, English, Yiddish
Subtitles
English
Other festivals
Venice, Toronto, Chicago

Screenings

2nd Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening010201 / Brutalist
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening101203 / Brutalist
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Trailer
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