Brady Corbet’s meticulous drama centres around a Hungarian architect in 1940s America.

Wits may joke that the most brutal thing about Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” is its formidable running time. That uncompromising factor apart, there is nothing specifically brutal in execution or content about Corbet’s drama, the title referring to the architectural style practised by the film’s hero, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect, László Tóth, who emigrates to the US in 1947. “The Monumentalist” might have been a better title, certainly as regards the ambition of the film’s ferociously individual writer-director – a dissident among American cineastes, whose allegiances are primarily to the European tradition at its most rigorous.

 

Jonathan Romney, Screen International

 

Ticket can be bought here or at Kai Art Center before the screening.

 

Country: USA, UK, Canada

Director: Brady Corbet

Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce

Language: English, Italian, Hebrew

Subtitle Language: Estonian

Distributor: Estonian Theatrical Distribution