By After drawing raves for his first two films, “The Childhood of a Leader” and “Vox Lux,” filmmaker Brady Corbet returns with the 3.5-hour biographical immigrant drama “The Brutalist”.
The epic film, starring Adrien Brody stars as a Hungarian Holocaust survivor struggling to revive his career as an architect in Philadelphia and follows the man’s life over nearly four decades.
Corbet spent seven years struggling to cobble together financing for the film which was shot on VistaVision 35mm film stock before being finished on 70mm – giving the film a massive and ambitious scale feel despite a limited $10 million budget.
Speaking with The New Yorker to promote the film, he says he’s currently at work writing his next film which will be a 1970s set horror-western with a “looser style”. He adds its will also deal with immigration again, but this time from China to California:
“I think that my immediate response to the reception of [The Brutalist] is, like, ‘Well, now you have an opportunity to make something that really p-sses everyone off […] It seems like a good time to really shake viewers. I think they can handle it.”
Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Stacy Martin, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Jonathan Hyde and Isaach De Bankolé co-star in “The Brutalist” which is a major contender on the awards circuit this year. It hits U.S. cinemas via A24 on Friday December 20th.
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