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The Brutalist
Plot
László Tóth is a Hungarian-Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust. Trained at the Bauhaus, he had a name in Europe before the war. In 1947 he arrives alone in the United States, leaving behind his wife, Erzsébet, and his niece, Zsófia, who still cannot leave the continent.
In Philadelphia, László moves in with his cousin Attila, who runs a furniture store, and starts from scratch. The two take a renovation job for a wealthy client, and László designs a modern library unlike anything else around. The work is not well received at first, the payment never comes, and Attila blames his cousin and throws him out.
Broke and far from his family, László gets by on odd jobs. Then the millionaire Harrison Lee Van Buren comes back into his life with a grand proposal that could change everything. The film follows decades in this immigrant's life, caught between the American dream and the price it demands.
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Awards and nominees
- Oscars 2025 · Best Actor · Adrien Brody
Beat: A Complete Unknown (Timothée Chalamet), Sing Sing (Colman Domingo), Conclave (Ralph Fiennes), The Apprentice (Sebastian Stan) - Golden Globes 2025 · Best Motion Picture - Drama
Beat: A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Nickel Boys, September 5 - Golden Globes 2025 · Best Director
Beat: Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard), Anora (Sean Baker), Conclave (Edward Berger), The Substance (Coralie Fargeat), All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) - Golden Globes 2025 · Best Actor - Drama · Adrien Brody
Beat: A Complete Unknown (Timothée Chalamet), Queer (Daniel Craig), Sing Sing (Colman Domingo), Conclave (Ralph Fiennes), The Apprentice (Sebastian Stan)
Trivia
- It was the first film shot in VistaVision since One-Eyed Jacks in 1961.
- At 215 minutes, the epic cost about $9.6 million net and grossed $50.4 million worldwide.
- László Tóth is fictional. The script draws on real 20th-century architects such as Marcel Breuer and Louis Kahn.
- It won the Silver Lion for direction at Venice and earned ten Oscar nominations, winning three: Actor, Cinematography and Original Score.
Cast
- László TóthAdrien Brody
- Erzsébet TóthFelicity Jones
- Harrison Lee Van BurenGuy Pearce
- Harry Lee Van BurenJoe Alwyn
- ZsófiaRaffey Cassidy
- Maggie Van BurenStacy Martin
- Attila MillerAlessandro Nivola
- Audrey MillerEmma Laird
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
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