In a world where building seems difficult at best and oppressive at worst, what’s the point of being an architect at all? That question unites two of last year’s most talked-about movies: Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis.” To be sure, both films peddle the trope of the embattled auteur. In “Megalopolis,” … Read more
“The Brutalist” won some of the top prizes at Sunday night’s Golden Globes, taking home the awards for best drama, best director and best actor in a drama. But it is exceptionally difficult for people to watch the story of the fictional Hungarian architect László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, who tries to realize his … Read more
Adrien Brody’s performance as a Hungarian architect in “The Brutalist” has won him his first Golden Globe. In the three-and-a-half hour film directed by Brady Corbet, the actor plays László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in America following the war. The performance and film are so detailed that some viewers have … Read more
“The Brutalist,” the epic starring Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor and architect, took home the top drama prize at the Golden Globes on Sunday, triumphing in a field that included the journalism ethics thriller “September 5” and the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.” In the weighty film, directed by Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”), … Read more
movie review THE BRUTALIST <em>Running time: 215 minutes. Rated R (strong sexual content, graphic nudity, rape, drug use and some language).</em> In every sense, the extraordinary director Brady Corbet’s period drama about a Jewish architect who emigrates to the US after World War II is mammoth: its decades-long story, titanic set pieces and, perhaps most of … Read more