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Adrien Brody Found the Part
The Brutalist is his best, most personal work since The Pianist.
Ever since Brody became, at 29, the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner in 2003, for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, he has felt of a different time and place — sexy in a European way with a promontory of a profile and angled eyebrows that would have made Rodin weep. Eventually he finds favor with Harrison Lee Van Buren ( Guy Pearce), a blustering industrialist who wants him to build a community center named after his mother on the grassy hillside in nearby Doylestown. He keeps the temperature of the place warm, and we go down to the garden level, where he makes us green tea before we settle on the floor around a stone coffee table that he calls “very Brutalist.” He lights the stick of copal, balances it on a fork, and sets out some dried mango.
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