In this towering vision from American director Brady Corbet, an accomplished Hungarian Jewish architect and World War II survivor named László Toth (Adrien Brody) reconstructs his life in America, reconnecting with family in Pennsylvania. While awaiting news of his wife’s relocation from Budapest, fate leads the Bauhaus-instructed genius into the orbit of the volatile Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), an obscenely wealthy captain of industry, who leads him to both professional success and personal chaos. Co-written by Corbet and Mona Fastvold, this richly detailed recreation of postwar America is alternately hopeful and nightmarish in its portrayal of immigrant living, accruing in meaning and power as it builds to its overwhelming final passages. Interweaving a provocative tapestry of ideas around privilege, money, religious identity, architectural aesthetics, and the persistence of historical trauma, The Brutalist is an absorbing, brilliantly acted American epic that reminds us the past is always present.
The Brutalist. 2024. USA. Directed by Brady Corbet. Screenplay by Corbet, Mona Fastvold. With Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce. 35mm courtesy A24. In English, Hungarian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Italian; English subtitles. 215 min.
Runtime includes 15 minute intermission
Tickets
$10 Hammer members | $20 general admission
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