In the film, the imaginary building evokes both the best and worst of postwar architecture and brutalism, with camera angles and lighting emphasizing its giant volumes of space and hard geometric ...

Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.

In a wide-ranging conversation with RogerEbert.com, Corbet and Fastvold reflected on brutalism’s enduring relevance, the ...

“The architectural motifs were also mirrored in the editing style,” he explains. "The clean, geometric precision of brutalist architecture influenced the cutting patterns, with long, unbroken shots ...

It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central ... Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist are wildly different in tone and tenor ...

In 2022, a group of German museums, non-profits, and trade magazines came together to launch #SOSBrutalism, a campaign to save Brutalist architecture around the world from demolition. Where others ...

It is, simply put, essential viewing for any serious fan of cinematic art. Brutalist architecture is a minimalist modern style that rose to prominence in the 1950s, a style stripped clean of ...

Toth is hired by a wealthy industrialist to build a massive community center in his "brutalist" style – a form of architecture that's light on decoration and heavy on concrete. To get Toth just ...

The title of “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet’s big swing of an American epic, refers to many things. Any builder who works in the imposing minimalist school of post-World War II architecture ...

“Brutalist architecture is representative of something that people do not understand and that they want torn down and ripped away,” he said. “So, the film is about how post-war psychology ...

In the film, the imaginary building evokes both the best and worst of postwar architecture and brutalism, with camera angles and lighting emphasizing its giant volumes of space and hard geometric ...