Movie Review The Brutalist

The Brutalist

Directed by Brady Corbet

Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold 

Starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn 

Release Date December 20th, 2024 

Published January 1st, 2025 

The Brutalist is an unrelenting, haunting, and engrossing film. Brady Corbet’s three hour plus epic follows a holocaust survivor, played by Adrien Brody, who leaves behind his wife in Hungary to establish a life for the two of them in America in the immediate aftermath of World War 2 and the loss of countless family members and friends. Having once been a prominent and well respected architect in Hungary, Brody’s Laszlo Toth will have to start at the bottom in America to rebuild his life and career while finding a place for himself, his wife, Erszebet (Felicity Jones) and their niece, Zsofia (Raffey Cassidy) whom they’ve cared for since her parents were killed in a concentration camp. 

The story of The Brutalist unfolds in chapters as uncompromising as the rest of the movie. By that I mean the title of each chapter is daunting. The first chapter is titled, 'The Enigma of Arrival' and charts Laszlo’s arrival in America, his being processed through Ellis Island, and his bus journey to Philadelphia where he will be staying with and working for his cousin, Attila (Alessandro Nivola) and Attila’s wife, Audrey (Emma Laird). His room is a tiny former storage closet hastily converted into a single bed dungeon that opens directly into Attila’s high end furniture store.

Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here. 



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