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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

The acclaimed film, which has secured U.S. distribution with A24, stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn.

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 ...