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‘The Brutalist’ Review: Director Brady Corbet Breaks Through in His Third Feature, an Engrossing Epic Starring Adrien Brody as a Visionary Architect
Felicity Jones is Brody's wife and Guy Pearce is the tycoon who bankrolls his visionary building in a drama that becomes a parable of...many things.
It’s three hours and 15 minutes long, it’s paced with a pleasing stateliness and overflows with incident and emotion — and it spins out the story of László Tóth ( Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who journeys from Budapest to America after World War II, as if Corbet were making a biopic about a real person. Before long, they get a furniture commission: Harry Lee (Joe Alwyn), the rich-kid son of a local tycoon, wants to take the dowdy old reading room used by his father and renovate it into a state-of-the-art library. The opening credits are the most flamboyantly austere since “Tár.” The film is divided into chapters with titles like “The Enigma of Arrival,” and there’s an intermission, programmed for 15 minutes, accompanied by a modernist solo piano performance.
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