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Brutalist among epic films bringing back the cinema intermission by featuring a 15-minute break

A 15-minute break featuring dedicated piano music brings the total running time for the film — an Oscar contender starring Adrien Brody — to 3 hours and 35 minutes

Now a new generation will have a pause of their own to catch up on social media or have a vape after the director of Adrien Brody’s epic The Brutalist announced that all cinemas showing the Oscar contender must include a 15-minute intermission when it opens later this month. The interval divides Brady Corbet’s film about a Jewish Hungarian architect who is attempting to rebuild his life in the United States after the Holocaust into two chapters — the enigma of arrival and the hard core of beauty — and brings its total running time to 3 hours and 35 minutes. He believes that audiences should be offered the choice of attending screenings with ten-minute intervals for all films longer than 2 hours and 30 minutes, emulating a practice that is common in cinemas across Europe, as well as theatres.

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