The Brutalist leads the Oscar nominations but as a film about architecture it's a little underwhelming, writes Will Wiles. You wait ages for an architectural epic and then two come along (almost ...
After all, he rejects Tóth's pitch of a pool with three simple words: "I can't swim." The Brutalist is, like its central building, unashamedly grandiose, with an immense thematic and visual scope.
Shot for less than $10 million, the almost four-hour epic won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and took home Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director at the Golden Globes.
The Brutalist, a film that follows a fictional Jewish Hungarian architect as he attempts to rebuild his life in Pennsylvania, used AI to improve the Hungarian dialogue spoken by its lead actors ...