By Brady Corbet’s historical drama “The Brutalist” earned the biggest standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival so far with a whopping 13 minutes of clapping.
The three-and-a-half hour film, which includes a 15-minute intermission, sees Adrien Brody playing a Hungarian Holocaust survivor struggling to revive his career as an architect in the United States.
The film traces his life over nearly four decades as he immigrates to the U.S. and begins working for a rich but hot-headed man (Guy Pearce) who wants to build an ambitious community center.
He helps the survivor reunite with his ailing wife (Felicity Jones) and begin to construct the brutalist building of his dreams, but a fateful incident changes all of their lives forever.
Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde, Isaach De Bankolé, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird and Peter Polycarpou co-star. Corbet and Mona Fastvold co-wrote the script.
Brody was a big focus of the applause. The actor wiped awat tears and repeatedly tried to direct applause toward his director and co-stars, but it kept falling back on him.
Eighteen reviews are up on Rotten Tomatoes with a 94% rating, and an utterly incredible 9.4/10 average rating.
Corbet dismissed talk about the film’s runtime at a press conference earlier, saying discussion of a film’s runtime is “quite silly”.
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