Huge in several ways, debatable or reproachable in others, “The Brutalist”of Brady Corbetis presented as a strong reversal of the famous American dream, and also as an ostentation of the struggle of the artist faced with the cortedness of view, the arrogance of the fools and the indifference of others.
In the film, that artist is an architect mistreated by his employer. But, in a sense, that artist is his own Corbetthat against wind and tide, challenge after challenge over several years, managed to make a shocking period drama with just nine million dollars, which is now a candidate for ten Oscars, of which it seems that it will take two at least: The best director for all the amazing he has achieved, and the best actor, because this is banked until the end just thanks to the remarkable Adrien Brodythat puts passion, suffering and carnadura over three and a half hours.
Yes, one of the defects of this film is its extension, and to top it off the last part is less catchy than the first. Despite this, they are even likely to give the main prize, for the issues he puts on the table and the opportunity of those issues.
What are we talking about? The story passes from 1947 to 1960 with an epilogue in 1980, and can represent that of so many immigrants fleeing death in life, they pay the right of floor in a country that despises them, they make America, if they can assimilate, or No, they triumph despite everything, or in the background they fail, and in the end they are somehow recognized.
In this case, a Buchenwald Hungarian Hungarian Jew, who ignores if his wife managed arrogant, but with whom he tries to do his own.
And what is yours? Before the war he was a renowned architect. Now he wants to turn to a brutalist style work, that without ornaments, of cement in sight, which Le Corbusier proposed in the early ’50. An example of brutalist architecture among us is the National Library.
In the Pennsylvania where the story is set, it is the Edgar Hoover building of the FBI, which was lifted only in the ’70. That, the North America of the ’50 would have rejected it as a mamotreto ugly. There is the story, which exposes issues such as racism, xenophobia, the resignation of roots, social abuse, rather than contract, in short, eternal issues that these days become even more evident in those lares.
Let’s clarify, for relative tranquility of the reader, that the architect’s wife managed to survive, even It excites, and others annoying or uncomfortable.
Corbet Add formal condiments that make their history look more attractive: filming in view of its projection in 70 mm., that is, big screen to the manner of the megaproductions of those times, interval with a particular overture, like those works, cranes, cranes, Chamber in hand and rare angles when the occasion asks for, sometimes uncomfortable, surprising music, and for the ’80 scene an unexpected but very coherent employment of the analog video.
The Director of Photography Lol Crawleythe other technicians and artists, the entire cast (Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Alessandro Nivola ) They are worthy of praise. The script, of the own Corbet and his wife Mona FastvoldI would have been better with good pruning.
“The Brutalist” (The Brutalist, USA-Gran Britain, 2024); Dir.: Brady Corbet; Int.: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Alessandro Nivola, Raffey Cassidy, Isaach de Bankolé.
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