“Architecture and filmmaking have a lot in common because it takes roughly the same amount of people to construct a building or make a movie,” he says in his director’s notes. “‘The Brutalist’ for me ...
The movie skips from the construction site to a belated recognition of his brilliance, decades later, at a Venice Biennale of Architecture. Even his first US work, a home library for his wealthy ...
And, wouldn't you know, ambition and design are precisely what the movie’s about. Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that ...
The parallels with architecture here seem clear. Make a building, or make a movie — but if you’re thinking small, go home. “The Brutalist” spans 30 years in the life of Tóth, whom we ...
The fictional movie, set in the 1950s and '60s, centers around architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian immigrant to the United States and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.