With just one line of spoken dialogue — “Welcome to America” — the trailer for director Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux) The Brutalist sets the tone for a new American epic.
Earning considerable amounts of buzz out of fall film festivals, including the Silver Lion for best directing at Venice, The Brutalist tells the story of Jewish-Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth’s (Adrien Brody, Asteroid City) emigration to America, alongside his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story). There, he’s commissioned to build a library for the wealthy Van Buren family: Harrison Lee (Guy Pearce, Mare of Easttown) and his son Harry (Joe Alwyn, Kinds of Kindness).
In his review for Mashable, critic Siddhant Adlakha called The Brutalist, “a towering paean to the American dream, in all its force and folly” and “a work of multifaceted technique and piercing humanity.”
The Brutalist hits theaters this Dec.
