Title - The Brutalist
Production - BrookStreet Pictures, Kaplan Morrison, Intake Films
Starring - Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankole, Alessandro Nivola, Emma Laird, Jonathan Hyde
Writer - Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
Director - Brady Corbet
Release - 20 December 2024
This was a magnificent movie, in the sense that each scene was shot and edited together beautifully. From beginning to the end, there was a lot of beauty in the composition, juxtaposed that with a very pained and hurt character so beautifully embodied by Adrien Brody.
Brody always gives great performances to pained characters, more so than that brief period of time when he played tough gangster-type antagonists. It will be hard to argue with me against him for giving the best performance of the year. From the very first shot of him appearing on camera, he kept me captivated.
And the story and the dialogue, from scene to scene, were riveting. Even clocking at almost three and a half hours long, my eyes never left the screen. And, it didn't feel like three hours.
Brady Corbet's background in architectural studies not only served this movie well but, I felt, was what drove the movie forward. I am left wondering, now, if the production actually built what they were building in this movie. Everything in here looked amazing after the norm of filming movies in front of green screens.
Guy Pearce gave what has to be a career best. His performance, too, was what carried the movie when playing opposite Brody. When the two were together, they made magic.
There was one amazing scene, when a mason poured water over a huge slab of marble and to watch that magic happen in front of our eyes, took my breath away.
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