Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones star in the primary trailer for director Brady Corbet‘s acclaimed historic drama characteristic The Brutalist.
A24 releases the movie Dec. 20 following its premiere over the summer season on the Venice Movie Competition. Rounding out the solid are Man Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé and Alessandro Nivola.
The Brutalist focuses on László Tóth (Brody), a Jewish architect who immigrates to the U.S. with spouse Erzsébet (Jones) after World War II. Following their arrival, Tóth lands a mysterious rich shopper (Pearce), who performs a key position in the architect’s path.
“Welcome to America,” Brody says in the trailer following a montage of moments from his character’s life.
Corbet (Vox Lux) helmed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. Nick Gordon, D.J. Gugenheim, Andrew Lauren, Trevor Matthews, Andrew Morrison and Brian Younger function producers.
The Brutalist premiered Sept. 1 in Venice, with Corbet profitable the fest’s prize for one of the best director. Throughout an interview at the moment, the filmmaker informed The Hollywood Reporter why he determined to middle the film on the brutalist architectural motion.
“Brutalist architecture is representative of something that people do not understand and that they want torn down and ripped away,” Corbet mentioned. “So, the film is about how post-war psychology shaped post-war architecture.”
In his assessment for THR, chief movie critic David Rooney wrote that The Brutalist’s “expansive story of a brilliant Bauhaus-trained Hungarian Jewish architect who survives World War II and starts a new life in Pennsylvania is a provocative original.”
He additionally famous, “Brody pours himself into the character with bristling intelligence and internal fire, holding nothing back as he viscerally conveys both exultant highs and gutting sorrows.”
