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The Brutalist

Brady Corbet’s pursuit of historical hinge points
Universal Pictures
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ABR Arts 21 January 2025

The Brutalist

Brady Corbet’s pursuit of historical hinge points
Universal Pictures
by
ABR Arts 21 January 2025
Adrien Brody as László Tóth in The Brutalist
Adrien Brody as László Tóth in The Brutalist

Brady Corbet made his first film, The Childhood of a Leader, when he was twenty-four. A former child actor, he came to directing after years as the Zelig of the arthouse, acting in films by auteurs such as Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier. When The Childhood of a Leader premièred at the Venice Film Festival in 2015, Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), serving as the president of the Orizzonti jury, likened Corbet to Orson Welles, an invocation so sacrilegious it was sure to provoke the ire of certain American critics, who have had Corbet in the gun ever since.

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