Now, director Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, in theaters December 20, offers a chance to see a softer side of the divisive ...

Central to the plot of the director Brady Corbet’s new drama, “The Brutalist,” is an enormous structure known as the Van Buren Institute. A24 Situated in Pennsylvania, it is made of concrete.

But it’s clear from the beginning that architecture in “The Brutalist” is merely a vehicle for a larger set of narrative ideas and concerns, including antisemitism, the plight of refugees ...

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection Adrien Brody in The Brutalist. Photo: A24/Courtesy Everett Collection But heavy-handed motif-wielding has its limits, and The ...

Brutalist architecture is a minimalist modern style that rose to prominence in the 1950s, a style stripped clean of ornamentation in favor of structure, and using raw, basic elements like exposed ...

The Brutalist is one of the movies of the year and was shot almost entirely on VistaVision, a format last used in Hollywood in the 1960s. Writer-director Brady Corbet and editor Dávid Jancsó talk ...

That said, the Holocaust, immigration, and post-war modern architecture are all very real things. The Brutalist is a historical fiction drama inspired by the post-war architectural style known as ...

Both Megalopolis and The Brutalist bring to mind The Fountainhead, director King Vidor’s 1949 adaptation of the novel by Ayn Rand, and until now the most prominent Hollywood film about an architect.

“The Brutalist” is also an American immigration tale, as well as catnip for anyone with a passing interest in architecture or design. Director Corbet wastes no time handing us his thematic ...

Brutalist architecture has been celebrated as monumental, ... The woodness of wood, ... I think, on the outside where the elements are very rugged and rough. On the inside, ...

Architects may groan at the depiction of their profession in “The Brutalist,” an enormously ambitious, epically scaled film about an imaginary Hungarian architect, László Toth. Played by ...