The Brutalist is a 215-minute film with a 15-minute intermission.
☕︎ Nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2025
☕︎ 2024 Venice Film Festival - Best Director
☕︎ 2025 Golden Globe Awards - Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.
☕︎ Performed by Adrien Brody of The Pianist and Felicity Jones of The Theory of Everything
Hungarian architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) moves to the United States after surviving the Second World War. Holding out hope that he will reunite with his wife (Felicity Jones), Toth toils for the daily grind in his adopted country. While working as a laborer in Philadelphia, he has a chance encounter with a wealthy benefactor (Guy Pearce) that changes the course of his life once again. Shot in the now forgotten VistaVision format, The Brutalist captures the mythical grandeur of postwar America through the eyes of an immigrant. Director Brady Corbet actualises his ambitious project under the risk-averse climate of Hollywood while star Adrien Brody is once again the beating heart of an epic story.
Director: Brady Corbet
Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce
 | About the Director Brady Corbet (b. 1988, United States) started his career as a child actor. His turn as a troubled teenager in Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin was positively received in the arthouse circuit. He then starred in Michael Haneke’s English remake of the psychological thriller Funny Games. In 2015, he directed his first film The Childhood of a Leader. Then he directed Natalie Portman in the critically acclaimed Vox Lux. The Brutalist premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2024 and was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction. | |