By A24 has reportedly won a bidding war for the U.S. rights to Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” which won best director yesterday at the Venice Film Festival.
The three-and-a-half hour film, which includes a 15-minute intermission and was shot on 70mm film stock in VistaVision format, 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.
The film currently sits at a 97% (9.2/10 average rating) from 33 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. No word on a U.S. opening date as yet, while Focus Features is handling all other territories.
A24 announced the deal ahead of the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this coming Tuesday.
Source: THR
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