The first trailer for Brady Corbet’s epic “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones, has been released.
The official logline reads, “When visionary architect László Toth (Brody) and his wife Erzsébet (Jones) flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client.”
Following “The Brutalist” premiere at the 81st annual Venice Film Festival, Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman described the sprawling examination of the Hungarian architect as “an echt-American tale of immigration and ambition, and of what it means to be an artist. But it’s also a tale of what it means to be Jewish in a world that approaches Jews with supreme ambivalence. This aspect of the film feels overstated, if only because the era it’s set in was such a powerful age of assimilation. It’s clear that Corbet made this movie because he wants it to mean something big. Whether it does may be in the eye of the beholder. Mostly, ‘The Brutalist’ lets you feel that you’re seeing a man’s life pass before your eyes. That may be meaning enough.”