Showing at The Grove Theatre…
The new film by Brady Corbet, the director of The Childhood of a Leader and Vox Lux, is an audacious and enrapturing American post-war epic.
Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth arrives in America in 1947 with nothing but his name. Navigating the poverty and degradation of a new life, his sole beacon of hope is the letters he exchanges with his wife, who remains stranded in Europe. But he soon crosses paths with a wealthy magnate who can potentially change his fortunes and offer him a path to the American Dream.
Novelistic and richly detailed, Corbet’s portrait of Tóth is a compelling excavation into the immigrant experience, and a potent rumination on the dark connections between capitalism, power, trauma and art. Beautifully constructed – like one of Tóth’s own vertiginous creations – The Brutalist soars; from Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce’s magnetic performances to Lol Crawley’s stunning VistaVision cinematography and Daniel Blumberg’s mesmerising score.