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...

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, Erzsébet, a...

Dec 19, 2024 · Thanks to Van Buren’s patronage, Tóth is able to resume building buildings that are simple, hulking, tectonic, undecorated structures, much like the work he did in Europe before the war...

Jan 23, 2025 · His first major commission—a community center in Doylestown, Pennsylvania—serves as a central theme in the story, reflecting the challenges and triumphs of the post-war immigrant experience. While the movie was primarily filmed in Hungary, its narrative roots in Pennsylvania are undeniable. Doylestown, renowned for its cultural and ...

Dec 20, 2024 · Though fictional, the film follows a heartbreakingly familiar story for many immigrant modernist architects: Having survived the Nazi concentration camps, celebrated Jewish architect László...

Dec 18, 2024 · Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce star in a wide-screen epic that critic Bob Mondello calls monumental. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: When Laszlo Toth staggers up to the ship's deck after his transatlantic...

Dec 5, 2024 · We meet Tóth on the boat to Ellis Island, stumbling through a dark and crowded ship cabin before emerging onto the deck to a stunning, skewed view of the Statue of Liberty. The scene’s fragmented voiceover, quivering handheld shots and Daniel Blumberg’s powerful score create a disorienting yet provocative introduction to the 215-minute picture.

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...

Dec 19, 2024 · Director Brady Corbet’s film “The Brutalist,” a vast and imposing portrait of fictional architect László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor starting over in the United States, has already achieved...

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes.