Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth, forcibly separated from his wife, Erzsébet, and niece, Zsófia, in Budapest during World War II and having survived the Holocaust, manages to emigrate to America. He travels to Philadelphia, where his immigrant cousin Attila and his American wife, Audrey, allow him to stay with them while he looks for employment.
In 1947, László helps with his cousin’s furniture business, and he and Attila are commissioned to renovate the study and library of wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren by his son, Harry, as a surprise to his father while he is away on business. Harrison arrives home furious at the state of the renovations, and orders László and Attila to leave without pay for the labor and materials. Some while later, Attila regretfully asks László to leave his home after Audrey accuses him of making advances towards her.
Years later, László is living in charitable housing within a church, where he befriends Gordon, a poor African-American man struggling to raise his young son. Gordon discovers that László is covertly smoking heroin before dangerous work together at a shipyard. One day, Harrison locates László, and tells him his modern study/library has been lauded by the architectural community. He pays László the money owed from the library renovation, which László and Gordon then spend on heroin.
Invited to a party by Harrison, László is treated as a guest of honor. With the revelation of László's past in Europe as an accomplished architect, and wanting to build and leave a monumental legacy, Harrison commissions him to construct a community center in honor of his late mother featuring a library, theater, gymnasium, and a chapel. Work begins immediately with László living and working on site, employing Gordon, who, along with László, has become a fully functioning heroin addict. For László's services, Harrison's personal lawyer is able to expedite Erzsébet and Zsófia's immigration to America.
Part 2: The Hard Core of Beauty
In 1953, László greets Erzsébet and Zsófia at the train station, where he discovers that due to the conditions and traumas suffered in the war and its aftermath, Zsófia has become mute and Erzsébet has developed osteoporosis and is now a full-time wheelchair user. During construction of the center, László learns of changes to the design and materials made without his approval, and butts heads with the other developers. Though László intends to pay out of his pocket for the materials necessary to his intended vision, Harry warns him to stay in his place, saying he is merely "tolerated," and makes unsavory sexual allusions to Zsófia, whom László warns to stay away from Harry, though he may have already assaulted her. Sometime later, the train carrying László’s materials derails and crashes, critically injuring two brakemen. With the expected legal fees and the increased cost it would take to transport the materials, Harrison abandons the construction and lays off all workers and László.
Years later, László has been employed by an architecture firm in New York City, where he and Erzsébet now live a metropolitan life. Zsófia, having overcome her muteness, is expecting a child with her new devoutly Jewish husband. She announces to her aunt and uncle that they are moving to Jerusalem in the then-newly established state of Israel, and unsuccessfully urges them to come with her. One day, Harrison contacts László to inform him that, by forgoing his community center’s library to cover legal expenses from the train crash, they can resume construction while staying on budget.
In order to acquire the stone to complete the building, László contacts an old Italian ally whose antifascist militia has taken control of a quarry in Carrara. The night before their return to America, Harrison and Lázsló party inside the quarry, and Harrison rapes László as a show of dominance, and berates him for wasting his potential. After their return, an increasingly traumatized and anxious László begins to unravel, aggressively yelling at a worker playing on the scaffolding, firing his friend Gordon, and avoiding a meeting with a developer.
After Erzsébet runs out of pain medication for her osteoporosis, László begins injecting her with heroin, which she nearly overdoses on one night. Growing sick of America, she proposes they live in Jerusalem with Zsófia and her family; László accepts.
One night, Erzsébet pays Harrison a visit at his home, and calls him a rapist in front of his children and associates. Harry violently attacks her and drags her out of the house, while his sister, Maggie, tends to her. Harry returns to the dinner table, only to find the guests leaving, and Harrison disappeared without a trace, though it is implied he may have committed suicide.
Epilogue
In 1980, Erzsébet has died, and an exhibition is held in Venice, paying tribute to László's work over the years (including the community center which finally completed construction over a decade after it was halted). A now adult Zsófia gives a speech highlighting how their experience with the Holocaust inspired László works. She ends by recounting what László once told her, "No matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey.”
In September 2018, Deadline reported that director Brady Corbet had chosen the period drama The Brutalist as his next project following the world premiere of his second feature film, Vox Lux.[8] New York-based Andrew Lauren Productions (ALP) developed the screenplay with Corbet and financed the film.[8] Corbet co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Mona Fastvold, with whom he co-wrote the 2015 film The Childhood of a Leader and the 2018 film Vox Lux.[9] The film was originally announced as a co-production between Andrew Lauren and D.J. Gugenheim for ALP, Trevor Matthews and Nick Gordon for Brookstreet Pictures,[10] Brian Young's Three Six Zero,[8] and the Polish company Madants,[11][12] and executive produced by Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, and David Hinojosa of Killer Films.[10]
On September 2, 2020, Deadline announced that Joel Edgerton and Marion Cotillard had been cast as the film's leads, László Tóth and Erzsébet Tóth, respectively, and that Mark Rylance was cast in the role of László's mysterious client.[10]Sebastian Stan, Vanessa Kirby, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola, Raffey Cassidy and Stacy Martin were also announced in unknown roles.[10] Corbet described The Brutalist as "a film which celebrates the triumphs of the most daring and accomplished visionaries; our ancestors", and the project which is so far the closest to his heart and family history.[10] Filming was scheduled to begin in Poland in January 2021.[13][10] Protagonist Pictures presented the project to buyers at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival.[10] The film takes place in Pennsylvania and was shot in English, Yiddish, Hungarian and Italian.[9][10]
Director of photography Lol Crawley, editor Dávid Jancsó, and costume designer Kate Forbes were announced on March 9, 2023.[14][15] Production designer Judy Becker was announced on April 11, 2023.[2]Daniel Blumberg composed the film's score.[16]
On April 11, 2023, it was announced that Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Jonathan Hyde, Emma Laird, and Peter Polycarpou would star in the film, while Edgerton, Cotillard, Rylance, Stan, and Kirby were no longer attached.[2] It was also announced that the film would be co-produced by the US-based companies Andrew Lauren Productions and Yellow Bear along with the United Kingdom's Brookstreet and Intake Films, and Hungary's Proton Cinema,[2] and financed by Brookstreet UK, Yellow Bear, Lip Sync Productions, Richmond Pictures, Meyohas Studio, Carte Blanche, Cofiloisirs, and Parable Media.[2] CAA Media Finance handles US sales with Protagonist Pictures handling international sales.[2]Focus Features subsequently acquired international distribution rights to the film.[17]
Filming
Filming was originally set to start in 2020,[18] but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18] It was then scheduled to start in January 2021,[13] but it was postponed to August 2021,[19] then it was postponed again to the second quarter of 2022.[18] Corbet said filming was postponed several times due to the pandemic as well as several pregnancies and deaths in the families of the film's cast and crew.[20]
After several delays, filming finally began in Budapest,[21][2] Hungary, on March 16, 2023.[22] Production then moved to the city of Carrara in Tuscany, Italy, on April 29, 2023,[23][24] and was completed on May 5, 2023.[25]
The film was shot using the VistaVision process and cameras, which involves shooting horizontally on 35mm film stock, which was then scanned, with the intention of also making prints for a 70mm film release.[26] VistaVision was selected for its ability to offer a wide field of view without the use of wide angle lenses while still maintaining a shallow depth of field, making it ideal for architectural photography.[27] Corbet explained the choice of VistaVision was also aesthetic: "It just seemed like the best way to access that period (1950s) was to shoot on something that was engineered in that same decade." In addition, the film is presented in two acts with a 15-minute intermission.[28]
The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2024)
The film's score was composed by Daniel Blumberg, who had previously worked with Corbet on the short film Gyuto (2019), with the two working together on the film over a span of seven years.[29][30] The album containing the score was released on December 13, 2024, through Milan Records.[30] Blumberg and Brady wanted continuous music for the film's first ten minutes, resulting in the opening sequence of The Brutalist being choreographed and shot to Blumberg's demos.[29] The overture features pianists John Tilbury, Sophie Agnel [fr], and Simon Sieger, trumpeter Axel Dörner, and saxophonist Evan Parker, all of whom appear throughout the soundtrack.[29] Synth-pop musician Vince Clarke plays the synthesizer on "Epilogue (Venice)".[30]
The experimental "Construction" was the first track Blumberg wrote for the score; an early demo was composed on a prepared piano at London's Cafe Oto to create a sound similar to construction noises.[30] "Erzsébet", one of the score's themes, was played by Blumberg live on a piano since Brady wanted the actors to hear the music while shooting; the train noises from the scene were eventually incorporated into the track's final version.[30]
It is set to be screened in IMAX theaters two days prior to its limited theatrical release for New York and Los Angeles, before being screened in IMAX nationwide throughout January.
Reception
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 134 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Structurally beautiful and suffused with Adrien Brody's soulful performance, writer-director Brady Corbet's immaculately designed The Brutalist is a towering tribute to the immigrant experience."[39]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 91 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[40]
The film received a five-star review from The Guardian'sPeter Bradshaw, who called it "an amazing and engrossing epic". He continued: "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". Bradshaw concluded: "It is an electrifying piece of work, stunningly shot by cinematographer Lol Crawley and superbly designed by Judy Becker. I emerged from this movie light-headed and euphoric, dizzy with rubbernecking at its monumental vastness."[41] In a review for Vogue, the cinematography, score, costumes, and production design were described as "sumptuous", "impressively stylish", and possessing a "staggering ambition".[42]
NPR included the film in their list of the best movies and TV of 2024, with critic Bob Mondello writing that The Brutalist is "Gorgeous, conceptually stunning, and dizzying in its savagery about cracks in the foundation of the American dream."[43]
RogerEbert.com writers named The Brutalist in the top slot of the Roger Ebert's Ten Best Films of 2024, which is determined by Borda count of the site's writers.[44]
^"The Sync Report | Brady Corbet". audioboom.com. August 11, 2022. Archived from the original on February 8, 2023. Retrieved March 21, 2023. Corbet starts talking about The Brutalist at the 1:11:48 mark.
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