The Brutalist

After the tragedy of the Second World War, László Toth, a visionary Hungarian Jewish architect, goes into exile with his wife Erzsébet in the United States with the promise of economic prosperity and freedom to develop his work. Brady Corbet's ambitious film, premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion for Best Director and the International Critics' Jury Prize, overwhelmingly traverses the American dream and its contradictions. The 70mm cinematography by the renowned Lol Crawley immerses us in the suffocating vastness of workers' spaces, forging a dizzying epic that questions the grand narrative of liberalism and its human consequences. Starring Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones, Corbet's visual experience is undoubtedly one of the cinematic events of the year.