As Bob Dylan and Laszlo Tóth, Timothée Chalamet and Adrien Brody depict different, but related trajectories for Jewish ...
In a wide-ranging conversation with RogerEbert.com, Corbet and Fastvold reflected on brutalism’s enduring relevance, the ...
Architects may groan at the depiction of their profession in “The Brutalist,” an enormously ambitious, epically scaled film about an imaginary Hungarian architect, László Toth. Played by ...
Adrien Brody’s discreet pathos always manages to breach his character’s calculated plain-spokenness. As the film progresses, ...
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by ...
As the film opens, Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) jubilantly arrives in America, with all the starry-eyed hopes of generations of immigrants before him, but with an extra joy at having survived Hitler’s ...
“There’s a very interesting parallel with the character that I play, Laszlo Toth,” Brody said in that same interview with NPR. “I feel like my mother, as an artist and her beautiful ...
“The Brutalist” is a thick slab of a movie, as starkly imposing as the concrete structures with which it shares certain aesthetic affinities. Two months ago, distributor A24 released a teaser ...
“The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.” Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence ...
For Jancsó, László Toth's monumental work in the film became the stylistic ... “I was already predisposed to Laszlo's artistic vision. There’s a simplicity to Brutalism and so we wanted to stay bold ...