The brutalist: 10 Oscar nominations for a very big film

The hidden brutality of American society
Collected at first by his cousin, totally in line with American financial culture to the point of denying his roots, the former architect will quickly realize that he is not necessarily welcome in the country of opulence and segregation. In the immediate post-war period, the poor and the Jews are treated with the same disdain as the blacks. Driving out odd jobs in immense dormitories, deceiving his loneliness in opium, László continues the days of work without ever complaining, without expecting anything either. Until the day he is led to renovate the Library of the anger billionaire Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce). Furious about transformations, the businessman changes his mind by discovering rave reports in the press. He then proposed to László to build a gigantic memorial at the top of a hill, in honor of his mother. And, at the same time, to help him bring to the USA his wife, Erzsebet (Felicity Jones), and his niece, Zsófia (Raffey Cassidy), stuck in Austria.
It is the beginning of another life. Not necessarily less tormented.
Adrien Brody continues the story of The Pianist
Revealed by The Pianist In 2002, Adrien Brody extends history in a certain way, this time finding himself in the heart of the post-shah. A role he brings again with exemplary dedication and restraint. Through his journey, Brady Corbet reveals the thousand and one facets of the hidden cruelty of American society, but also of the resilience of Jewish survivors. Far from caricatures, each character gradually reveals his luminous and obscure sides, his reasons for living, his deep motivations. And it’s touching, even sometimes overwhelming.
The icing on the cake, the final scene gives all its meaning to the architectural obsession of László, to its intransigence which sometimes makes it fall into the camp of the brutes, to the importance of memories intended to challenge time. After that, it is impossible not to be interested in architecture.
Humanly very rich, of great density in the themes addressed, of a scope which very largely exceeds the duration of the projection and an implacable coldness on the violence of our world, The Brutalist Finally watches as an an hour and a half film passionately, without seeing time pass. A must for moviegoers.