The Brutalist is a mystery that would like to look at immediately, writes Juho Rissanen, News Manager at Iltalehti.
Architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) are trying to find each other and rebuild their lives after surviving the Holocaust. Aop
The Brutist
US-English Hungary, 2024
Directed by: Brady Corbet
IL estimate: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
As an international co -production The Brutist -The movie has been praised in many people in the world. The film has been annoyed to be monumental, hypnotic and epic. So expectations were high, but there is no denying the praise received by the film. This is one of the finest and most ambitious films in recent years.
The Brutist tells the story of Hungarian Jewish fictional architect László Toth for decades of decades, trying to create a new life for himself and his wife in the United States.
The film starts immediately after World War II and ends until 1980. So the scale is long and so is the movie. It takes about three and a half hours, including a 15 -minute interval.
At the heart of the film is Tothi’s relationship with his wife Erzsébet and rich businessman Harrison Lee Van Buren, with whom Toth begins to carry out a magnificent construction project.
What then makes a rather simple story an exceptionally fine movie experience?
There are many reasons. First of all, the film is brought to life by its main trio, or American, seen in the role of architect Totti Adrien Brodyan Englishman acting his wife Felicity Jones as well as a dull industrial ponding Australian Guy Pearce. All three play the roles of their lives in the movie.
Adrien Brody seems to be in a way going to where his story remained the 2002 movie The pianist after. At that time, Brody, who won the Oscar Prize for his role, performed the Holocaust artist, for the time the piano, now an architect.
In The Brutalist The war is already over and its horrors are behind, but a different horror is still ahead, as Toth carries the concentration camp within years. The upside -down statue of freedom at the beginning of the movie in the Port of New York gives an indication that an American dream also has another destruction of everything destroying.
The Brutist is a spectacle that is definitely worth watching at the cinema, for an Englishman Laurie Crawley description and his countryman Daniel Blumberg The music is magically intertwined with a dreamy spectacular sight on the screen.
The coolest In The Brutalist However, it is its story.
The film is written by its American director, former child actor Brady Corbet36, together with his Norwegian spouse Mona Fastvold with. Despite its long duration, the film does not stay in place for a moment, but continues to surprise the viewer. At no point can you foresee where the story leads or what happens next.
The film’s dialogue is skilled and credible, and a few suitable points have been scattered to the serious atmosphere that lighten the atmosphere and the jokes. However, the most convincing manuscript is the subtlety, which at the same time is able to deal with the traumas caused by the Holocaust and World War II, the psychology of people who live in refugees and the terrible things, and the relationship between people to art, and especially architecture.
Alongside all this, the film also ponders subtly and skillfully themes like homelessness, family, outsiders, loneliness and greed.
An equally complex, mysterious, ambitious and profound story is rarely encountered in movies.
With the world again in the midst of quite a bit of upheaval, The Brutist It feels extremely topical, even though it takes decades ago.
If some kind of benchmark To The Brutist wants to apply for movies in recent years, one could be Paul Thomas Anderson 2007 masterpiece There will be be bloodwho also told about the devastating friendship and struggle between two men at the historic turning point of the United States. Both films are also united by great actresses and great filming and music.
Where There will be be blood However, the story was quite straightforward, is The Brutist A mystery that requires more views to find out.
Director Brady Corbet fought for many years to get her movie done. All of the main performers changed over the years and sometimes the project seemed to be lost. However, hard and uncompromising work was worthwhile, as the end result is a timeless movie, which will surely be watched in decades.
The Brutalist arrived at cinemas on Friday 28.2.2025.