Bertolt Brecht walked so that Brady Corbet could run.
Unrelenting, yet the quickest four hours of my life, The Brutalist delivers some mightily devastating messaging around the American Dream, or in this case the American Fucking Nightmare…
And you cannot tear your eyes or ears away.
The biggest contributor to this is the performance given by Adrien Brody. Although he reminds us here of the greatness he displayed in The Pianist, it’s important to not consider this as a repeat or…
This was gonna be super cool and special for me as a Harry Potter fan either way… but I would have loved some more intimate conversations about stories from behind the scenes and on set! It all was a bit too broad picture for too much of it..
Yet another film of 2021 that I let myself be way too excited for, and succumbed to the old anti climax predicament. BUT not to say it wasn’t good!!!
Haim and Hoffman are extraordinary discoveries. I needed way more Cooper and Penn. The cinematography was gorgeous, I have never seen natural light captured like that before !!!
Soundtrack was pitch perfect.
It was just too long of a running time for what it was trying to achieve. And the 15 year old and 25 year old relationship was a bit uncomfortable and not entirely believable in parts.
