Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in The Brutalist
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Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2024

The Brutalist

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Introduction by actor Felicity Jones

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

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MoMA Contenders 2024 is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This film program is organized by Rajendra Roy, the Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, Sean Egan, Senior Producer, Film Exhibitions and Projects, and Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
 
The Hammer Museum's presentation is made possible by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation.
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