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The Brutalist
Bremerhaven, post-war Europe. László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian Jew who survived the Buchenwald concentration camp, finds passage to America. He has been separated from his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones), a survivor of Dachau and herself trying to find her way out of the old continent, but they manage to correspond through letters. László’s talents as an architect come to the forefront when he and his counsin get hired to remodel a study into a library by the son of mysterious billionaire Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce). This first job turns into a more significant commission, and the hesitant relationship into a decades-long tug of war between a powerful, egotistic man and a tormented visionary.
Dedicated film lover and actor-turned-director Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader, Vox Lux) returns with this epic saga and love story that won him the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. Carefully crafted with some of cinema’s best technicians and actors, The Brutalist is, indeed, the kind of awe-inspiring experience that only cinema can offer.