The Brutalist

Experience Brady Corbet’s Academy Award–winning epic – an unflinching portrait of art, ambition and the fragile foundations of the American dream.

At the end of World War II, visionary Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody, in an Academy Award-winning performance) immigrates to the United States, determined to rebuild a life from ruins. After years of struggle, he attracts the unlikely patronage of a wealthy industrialist (an electric Guy Pearce), drawing him into a world of moral compromise, fractured identity and the uneasy marriage of creative genius and capitalism.

They don’t make them like this anymore. A monumental slab of cinematic bravado filmed on an improbable indie budget, director Brady Corbet’s polarising, three-and-a-half-hour saga (complete with intermission) aims squarely for a spot in the lineage of the great American epic – evoking the operatic scale of films like Once Upon a Time in America, There Will Be Blood and The Godfather saga.

Visually absorbing and formally audacious, The Brutalist stands among the most ambitious cinematic achievements of the decade.