How ‘The Brutalist’ Makes a Poetic Argument for a Divisive ...
Dec 20, 2024 · In The Brutalist, Jewish architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) escapes the Holocaust to build a new life, and career, in the United States. Photo: Lol Crawley. For its often blocky and raw...
The Brutalist: Is The Movie Based on a True Story? - The …
Jan 4, 2025 · László Toth is at the center of the plot as a Hungarian-Jewish architect and a Holocaust survivor who flees to America with his wife, Erzsébet, to start life anew. He finds patronage under Harrison Van Buren, the wealthy industrialist who …
How ‘The Brutalist’ built architect László Tóth — inside and out
Dec 20, 2024 · Adrien Brody as László Tóth, the architect and Holocaust survivor at the center of Brady Corbet's new film "The Brutalist." In a dark corner of a mansion in mid-century Pennsylvania,...
The Brutalist Is a Cinematic Reflection of Brutalism
Dec 21, 2024 · The Brutalist is an almost four-hour film that follows László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor, as he rebuilds his life in postwar America. Trained at the Bauhaus and once celebrated in Europe, Tóth arrives in Philadelphia with nothing.
The Brutalist is an alluring bricolage of avant-garde architects and ...
Dec 19, 2024 · The Brutalist chronicles the life of visionary architect László Tóth as he arrives in America to rebuild his life after escaping Hungary. (Lol Crawley)
How ‘The Brutalist’ Conjures Up a Grand Building That Doesn’t Exist
Dec 23, 2024 · Adrien Brody as László Tóth, an architect with a grand vision. Lol Crawley/A24. Central to the plot of the director Brady Corbet’s new drama, “ The Brutalist,” is an enormous structure known as...
To Make ‘The Brutalist’ Monumental, the Filmmakers Approached …
Dec 20, 2024 · Protagnist László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, is a Bauhaus-trained architect who escaped the Holocaust and struggles with his trauma and dislocation after settling in Philadelphia amid class and racial tension.
"There is no more controversial style" says The Brutalist director
Dec 19, 2024 · The film depicts László Tóth as a Bauhaus-trained architect. Corbet argues that in some ways brutalist architecture mirrors the immigrant experience.
The Brutalist Pairs Modern Architecture and Postwar Trauma
Dec 20, 2024 · Like Szpilman, Tóth is an Eastern European Jew, a victim of the Holocaust, and an artist—not a musician, but an architect. He is also a heroin addict—a habit he picks up after suffering a nasal...
How the “The Brutalist” Production Designer Went “Method
Dec 18, 2024 · Set in 1940s America, the film stars Adrien Brody as László Toth, a Hungarian architect who struggles to rebuild his life and his architectural practice, while attempting to execute his masterpiece: a cultural and religious building called the Institute.
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