There’s no brutalist architecture in The Brutalist. This terrifically named film—directed by former child actor turned would-be auteur Brady Corbet; cowritten by him and his partner in life and work, the director Mona Fastvold; and production-designed by Judy Becker—recounts the years 1947 to 1960, plus a 1980 dénouement and coda, in the life of an imaginary Jewish Hungarian American emigré, Holocaust survivor, and brutalist architect called Lazlo Tóth.
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