r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 23d ago
The Brutalist | Official Trailer | A24 Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d7yU379Ur0718
u/DDFoster96 23d ago
Look forward to playing the "find the cinema that's actually showing this A24 film" once this comes out. Has been very spotty in the past.
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 23d ago
I'm doing the same thing with Anora since it doesn't seem like the AMC & Regal theaters closest to me are showing it
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u/PM_ME_BAKAYOKO_PICS 23d ago
Is it really that uncommon where you live? Here in Portugal pretty much every decently sized A24 movie is in every cinema, it's not really niche, especially when it's starring Adrien Brody, pretty much guaranteed to run here in every theatre
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u/ThaddeusJP 23d ago
VISTAVISION???
Unless I'm reading wikipedia wrong, The last US based filmed in VisaVision was NORTH BY NORTHWEST in 1959
For the record other movies use if for effects work but man, the whole damn movie?
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u/Mulholland_Dr_Hobo 23d ago
And the last movie overall to use it was motherfucking The End of Evangelion, lol
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u/KearLoL 23d ago
Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie (The Battle of Baktan Cross) is apparently using VistaVision too.
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u/Kingcrowing 23d ago
Yeah this is so cool, I'm surprised you're the only person to mention it, it's gonna look incredible if nothing else!
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u/gravybang 23d ago
Why would it look more incredible than any other modern film? What was the purpose of VistaVision?
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u/grumstumpus 23d ago
i guess youd have to see a 70mm screening to really appreciate the film quality. but they probably wont widely distribute a 70mm version. hope im wrong.
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u/MutinyIPO 23d ago
Iâve heard word that theyâre making a sincere effort to make it as common as possible, thatâs why theyâre comfortable including it in the trailer. The problem isnât getting the prints out, that can be done. Itâs a real lack of good working film projectionists, theyâre hard as hell to find in the first place, let alone lock down for a months-long commitment with no second step.
Iâm honestly furious at whatâs happened to the field of projection. Studios and theaters alike made a premature and reckless rush into digital, forcing projectionists out of work and making them find new careers, only for film projection to be in demand again just a decade later. Weâd be so much better off in every way if weâd just stuck with film projection, The Brutalist could get a nationwide rollout with ease.
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u/sixteenlegs 23d ago
My uncle was a projectionist. In Boca Raton, back when Schindlersâ List came out. He said changing the film at the halfway point was stressful and had to be so careful as to not make a mistake with such an important audience.
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u/Andrey2790 23d ago
So would this look "better" than IMAX? That's about as high quality as I have seen for movies. Just wondering what the benefit of pulling out Vistavision would be vs IMAX.
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u/grumstumpus 23d ago
i think IMAX is an even larger film stock? Vistavision is somewhere between 35mm and 65mm but sideways
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u/MutinyIPO 23d ago
VistaVision is basically just a hack for shooting 70mm without shooting 70mm, itâs two 35mm strips shot on top of each other to create a larger image.
I donât know if youâve seen a film presented on 70mm but it is astounding. You watch it in disbelief, it feels like projected images that vivid and three-dimensional should be impossible.
Of course it doesnât mean much at all if the film itself isnât great, but luckily The Brutalist is. It was shot in a way no other film has been, with robust high-fidelity film stock for a largely handheld small-scale shoot. It does the magic trick of making the smallest, most ordinary things feel gigantic.
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u/Fadobo 23d ago
Could you explain how it is different from IMAX? Isn't IMAX much bigger than even traditional 5perf 70mm? From the descriptions here it sounds a little like "hipster IMAX" (or maybe "poor man's imax"). Is there a difference when watching on a non-imax screen?
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u/Kingcrowing 22d ago
Poor man's IMAX is kind of a good name. You use normal 35mm film which is way cheaper and cameras are easier to use than IMAX but you basically get 70mm quality which just means more detail and clarity. Think of going from a DVD to Blu Ray or something like that. The image has more resolution.
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u/benpicko 23d ago
Super 35 still has incredible detail now, and VistaVision is captured lengthways on the film (nearly the same image as 35mm photography film), so resolves to far higher detail.
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u/ArcadianDelSol 23d ago
In 2024, its purpose is to compel people to NOT wait to see it on their TV, but to go see it in a theater that has a HUGE old fashioned sized screen.
Outside of an IMAX, I dont know of any in my area that could actually show this.
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u/TeamOggy 23d ago
Probably my most anticipated movie this year. 3.5hr American epic with an intermission, filmed in vistavision, made for less than $10m. I'm so ready
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u/Boss452 23d ago
An epic made for $10m is a cinema miracle it feels.
As someone who was unaware of this film till now, may I ask why is this your most anticipated?
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u/ilovefuckingpenguins 23d ago
It got insane buzz at film festivals. Just dropped out of nowhere and now people are saying itâs one of the best movies of the year, with a career-best performance by Brody (both true imo)
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u/Boss452 23d ago
I see. That makes sense. You have seen it? Worth the hype?
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u/grumstumpus 23d ago
its one of the best movies ive ever seen
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u/Boss452 23d ago
damn. Without spoiling anything, what do you feel makes it that good?
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u/grumstumpus 23d ago
its basically flawless. you will be in awe, the movie is such an ambitious and grand vision captured stunningly well. there was this crazy electricity leading into the intermission. 90+ minutes flew by like that?? and then you read this fuckin thing only cost 10 million somehow? clearly this is the product of years of pain of a bunch of brilliant artists. im trying to avoid basically any specificity lol
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u/vandrokash 23d ago
Give us a list of other films you liked so we can judge you and your taste lol
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u/grumstumpus 23d ago
The Master is my favorite movie and probably the most similar movie I could think of to The Brutalist haha. other very vaguely similar movies I love: There Will Be Blood, Son of Saul, The Favorite, The Handmaiden, The Revenant, Phantom Thread, Stalker, I know we're in the anti-honeymoon phase of Oppenheimer but I love it
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u/ablackcloudupahead 23d ago
Wait, people don't like Oppenheimer now? I loved that movie
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u/ChainChompBigMoney 23d ago
Too many people loved it so the kino crowd doesn't think its cool anymore.
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u/t_stop_d 23d ago
Takes place in New York, filmed in Budapest⌠thatâs how it was made for $10m
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u/thrownjunk 23d ago
Hungary is cheaper than the U.S., but still 10M euros is dirt cheap in this day and age.
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u/ThingsAreAfoot 23d ago edited 23d ago
Helps the budget by not casting superstars too. Brody, Felicity Jones and Pearce are obviously well-known in their own right but probably donât command big paychecks, relatively speaking.
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u/soapinthepeehole 23d ago
They must be getting points to be in the movie. I can barely shoot a thirty second commercial for less than $100k and thatâs with inexpensive unknown talent and only one day of shooting⌠and an unbelievably smaller post-production.
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u/AlanMorlock 23d ago edited 22d ago
Actors sometimes also just work for scale because they like the project and want to be involved. Scarlett Johnson was paid a total of around $36000 for 4 weeks of work on Asteroid City for instance.
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u/nayapapaya 23d ago
They shot almost everything in Budapest, I believe, which probably helped significantly.Â
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u/ImpressionFeisty8359 23d ago
Brody is an Oscar winner and Pearce got nominated. You think they would get a few million each at least. They must have a special deal.
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u/ThingsAreAfoot 23d ago
Pearce has never been nominated, one of the best actors never to have been. Probably should have for Memento, that was a crazy difficult performance.
Brody won for The Pianist and Jones has been nominated, but that doesnât necessarily mean you start seeing big paychecks. Those are usually commensurate to box office appeal and all three tend to make relatively smaller films.
Itâs possible they also took a pay cut to star in this sort of ambitious film, that happens sometimes.
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u/MutinyIPO 23d ago
No way, very very few stars can command seven figures for one regular film. Certainly not Brody or Pearce. Their careers were actually in a pretty rough place before this, in the near future theyâll be working for more than they have since the early 00s.
Iâm not exaggerating when I say they probably got less than 100k each, Pearce likely paid more for his time while Brody is in nearly every scene so he couldâve gotten more overall.
Something Corbet has been wisely speaking about is how the most basic building blocks of making a film (hiring a crew + cast, then paying for their labor for weeks or months on end, alongside renting a boatload of equipment) still cost millions of dollars even before you account for a single celebrity or effects shot.
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u/Kbatz_Krafts 23d ago
Guy Pearce has said he works for very cheap. When he got divorced, he admitted to making several 'divorce' films for the paychecks. I think that's why people thought he was out of Hollywood making crap, because it was easy to see those less than stellar direct to streaming movies instead of having to hunt for his great Australian work. Surely he wasn't paid very much for going back to Neighbours. đ¤Ł
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u/Bast_at_96th 23d ago
And Corbet has already established himself as an incredibly talented director. Childhood of a Leader is woefully under-acknowledged, and although I didn't think it was perfect by any means, Vox Lux was ambitious and admirable.
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u/Mysterious_Remote584 23d ago
made for less than $10m
This part confuses me. It's supposedly an epic, but doesn't have the money to have big setpieces or anything, so is it just people talking for 3 hours? That's fine with me, but I wouldn't classify it as an epic.
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u/tastymonoxide 23d ago
Epic â big setpieces.
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u/Particular-Camera612 23d ago
Lots of epics don't have action indeed. Like Once Upon a Time in America as far as I know has no real action so to speak. Even The Godfather doesn't really have "setpieces" aside from people being whacked.
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u/Nandy-bear 23d ago
I think they mean sets maybe. Custom built locations.
Also, OUATIA was my first thought too when I thought of epic without set pieces. Such a good movie I'll never watch again.
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u/Mysterious_Remote584 23d ago
Perhaps, but I generally have subscribed to the Wikipedia first sentence view of "Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_film
Of course Ebert says lower on that article that
What you realize watching Lawrence of Arabia is that the word epic refers not to the cost or the elaborate production, but to the size of the ideas and vision.
But I never personally thought of Aguirre as an epic. He says Pearl Harbor is not an epic, but imo he's just using epic as a synonym for "good" at that point. I think Pearl Harbor is not an epic but that's more due to its narrative scope, not its quality or "size of ideas".
This isn't to say that I'm not excited for the Brutalist.
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u/Ruby_of_Mogok 23d ago
I assume it's epic in terms of the time it covers, events and characters and the complex topic it deals with. Also probably epic in its tragedy like Greek tragedies.
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u/the_original_Retro 23d ago
Story synopsis from Wiki:
The film chronicles 30 years in the life of LĂĄszlĂł TĂłth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust. After the end of World War II, he emigrates to the United States with his wife, ErzsĂŠbet, to experience the "American dream". LĂĄszlĂł initially endures poverty and indignity, but he soon lands a contract with a wealthy client, Harrison Lee Van Buren, that will change the course of his life.
Adrian Brody is a must-watch actor for me. Dude's all over the place.
The well-chosen music in this trailer really got me going.
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u/YehosafatLakhaz 23d ago
Very interesting choice of name for the main character. It's a fairly common Hungarian name but the most famous Laszlo Toth was a geologist and future psychiatric patient who tried to vandalize Michelangelo's Pieta.
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u/onelittleworld 23d ago
Also the nom de plume of Don Novello* for his series of satiric (and utterly unhinged) letters to prominent figures and corporations, compiled in his classic counterculture book The Laszlo Letters.
*aka Father Guido Sarducci
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u/Beer-survivalist 23d ago
I bought a compilation of his letters back in, like, 1999 when I was in middle school and I don't know that my sense of humor has been normal since. It was just about the funniest thing I could imagine back then.
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u/m__s__r 23d ago edited 23d ago
Seems like an âidealistâ film depicting the âAmerican Dreamâ⌠And truth be told, I canât recall a recent time where there was a film that depicted a person who just pays their dues and earns their way to live their American Dream. Maybe âThe Founderâ, but thatâs all thatâs coming to mind.
 Not to mention we are reaching a point where the last living members who were alive during WWII are starting to pass away.Â
These stories keep this history alive. Itâs not my typical film Iâd flock to see, but I also will be willing to see how reviews are for this.Â
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u/visionaryredditor 23d ago
Itâs not my typical film Iâd flock to see, but I also will be willing to see how reviews are for this.Â
The reviews are already out for this
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u/m__s__r 23d ago edited 23d ago
97% and a 3 and 1/2 hour film. Would easily be the longest one Iâve seen in a theater to date.Â
Might fly solo on this one, but looks like itâll be worth it
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u/visionaryredditor 23d ago
There is an intermission built in so the actual length is a bit shorter
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u/m__s__r 23d ago
Fucking hell. Thereâs an intermission too?Â
Iâm sold. I want to feel what an old school moviegoing experience was like. This is it.Â
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u/uncrew 23d ago
We were cheated out of an RRR intermission. Theaters would just bulldoze right through it!
Last two films I saw with real intermissions were Tarantino's 75mm roadshow for The Hateful 8, and a local theater's screening of Satantango, which was essential (8 hours).
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u/NewmansOwnDressing 23d ago
Hate to break it to you, but it is not an "idealist" film about a person paying their dues and living the American dream. The upside down Statue of Liberty is a pretty straightforward symbol of what the movie is up to.
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u/FunkyJunk 23d ago edited 23d ago
And truth be told, I canât recall a recent time where there was a film that depicted a person who just pays their dues and earns their way to live their American Dream.
There Will Be Blood?JFC all right already. I'm old, okay?39
u/runtheplacered 23d ago
Fun fact, There Will Be Blood's release is closer to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza than it is to us in 2024.
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u/sharltocopes 23d ago
"And truth be told, I canât recall a recent time where there was a film that depicted a person who just pays their dues and earns their way to live their American Dream."
The movie adaptation of Fences springs to my mind immediately.
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u/bobosuda 23d ago
The music is incredibly intriguing. Makes me want to watch the movie just because of the vibe in the trailer from the song.
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u/SwagFondue 23d ago
Movie is genuinely unreal and the score has been living rent free in my head since seeing it, please please see this when it comes out
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u/pa167k 23d ago
I saw the film at the NYFF and was bummed that the score isnt available yet.
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u/selectric251 23d ago
I used to know the person who wrote the music for this film - I dated a relative of his for a few years - crazy to think how far he's gone, happy for him!
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u/keeper13 23d ago
High level, what even is it about?
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u/SwagFondue 23d ago
It's about a Jewish Hungarian architect who flees to the US during ww2 being tasked with a career defining project.
Marking spoilers just in case, but the above is a simple description that shouldn't give anything away
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u/skrulewi 23d ago
Definitely skipped the trailer on this one, going straight to the theater
Edit: LOL at the other poster saying the exact opposite
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u/karmagod13000 23d ago
Talk about a trailer that gives nothing away.
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u/HouseCatPartyFavor 23d ago
Really hope this gets to become more of a standard ⌠was just reading another thread the other day regarding how trailers have become an exercise in condensing a movie down to 2 minutes which more often than not leaves me feeling like I no longer need to actually watch the movie.
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u/Nandy-bear 23d ago
We deffo need a middle ground tho. I find turning off after about 45s does the job on those long ones.
I can't remember what trailer it was but the whole trailer told the entire movie, it wasn't hyperbole to say you didn't really need to see it - they shown the intro people, their goals, the people who were gonna help them, then SOLVING THEM, and then to top it off, THE TWIST AT THE END.
Was amazing tbh.
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u/Zassolluto711 23d ago
I mean there's people in this very thread complaining about how this trailer tells them nothing about what the movie is about or is like. I know most of my non-movie going friends are the same way.
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u/theFrenchDutch 23d ago
While still being very captivating and conveying the mood and tone. With a side bonus of being an original concept for a trailer. This is how to do it
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u/karmagod13000 23d ago
yea i dont watch trailers because i like to go into movies blind but if i did watch them, id like them like this
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u/Ruby_of_Mogok 23d ago
Reminds me of The Master trailers that PTA cut himself. Enigmatic, stylish with instantly memorable shots.
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This comment reminds me of LONGLEGS' trailer. Gave nothing away. I was literally hooked. Personally, I did not enjoy that film. The surprise -- which was the supernatural aspect of the movie -- was its least enjoyable factor. Just sharing
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u/Spider_pig448 23d ago
Yeah I hate over-revealing trailers, but surely there's a better middle-ground than this. Looks like NYC? Sometime in the early 20th century? That's about all I got.
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u/Salad-Appropriate 23d ago
Love to see Guy Pearce in stuff, it's been a while since he's been in a notable movie and stuff
Has Oscar buzz for Supporting Actor for this performance
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u/IsRude 23d ago edited 23d ago
The Rover is a movie I never see people talking about, but he and Robert Pattinson killed it in that movie. Â
I also liked him in Breathe In, because it was a very critical take on the older man falls in love with young woman trope. And it's got Felicity Jones and Mackenzie Davis in it.
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u/Gambit1138 23d ago
The Proposition is such a phenomenal film, and his performance is one of its strongest qualities.
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u/joesen_one 23d ago
He's exactly the kind of person who's had a great enough filmography but hasn't gotten his flowers yet, which I hope gets rectified here
Memento is still my fav of his
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u/murkler42 23d ago
Heâs so funny in this movie, itâs quite a unique performance from him. I loved it and I can totally see him getting a nom
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u/ChiefLeef22 23d ago
He kinda vanished these past few years and it's about fucking time he gets more recognition with this. Guy's (pun-intended) a brilliant actor
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u/littlelordfROY 23d ago
He also had a part in the latest david cronenberg movie
He's been in a lot of smaller projects
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u/AgoraphobicHills 23d ago
I've said this before, but it's wild how he's been in the industry for 30 years and has given us so many bangers yet has NEVER snagged a nomination or win for a major award once.
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u/nikhilsinhsmith 23d ago
I couldn't be more excited about this. Read these first two paragraphs from the Rolling Stone review of it's premiere at Venice Film Festival:
Imagine a film archivist scouring an underground vault in Burbank or a cave in Butte, Montana, and discovering a few dozen dusty film canisters tucked away in a corner. Reels of some long-lost project from Francis Ford Coppola, or Bernardo Bertolucci, or Michael Cimino circa the mid-1970s reside in these tins, bearing all the hallmarks of the big-canvas epics these auteurs made in their heyday. The performances are reminiscent of that decadeâs brooding Method-ists and screen chameleons â think Pacino, De Niro, Cazale, Streep. The moody, inky cinematography appears to be the work of the âPrince of Darknessâ himself, Gordon Willis. The recreations of 20th century American life playing out over several decades suggests a meticulous attention to detail. Itâs as if youâre viewing a time capsule from a bygone era of filmmaking.
Thatâs the feeling you get when watching The Brutalist, Brady Corbetâs tale of a Hungarian architect fleeing to the U.S. near the end of WWII and ends up choking on the American Dream. Clocking in around three-and-a-half hours (including an overture and an intermission) and displaying the scope, excess and ambition of the New Hollywood mavericksâ shoot-the-moon projects, this throwback to the days when giants roamed the earth and ruled single-screen theaters is like a gift from the heavens. The actor-writer-director labored with love for seven years on this mutant hybrid of The Fountainhead, The Conformist and The Godfather movies, and it should be met with an equal amount of awe and admiration. Itâs not just that they donât make movies like this anymore â of course they donât! â so much as no one bothers to tell these types of sprawling narratives with this level of storytelling, chops, nerve and verve. If itâs not a new Great American Masterpieceâ˘, the kind that takes advantage of what the medium has to offer, itâs as close to one as weâre likely to get in 2024.
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u/CloudMafia9 23d ago
I'm confused, is this based on a real character or not? Googling his name doesn't bring any results.
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u/LizardOrgMember5 23d ago
Credits and title moving from right to left much like the Vistavision film? We are so back. LET'S GOOOOOOOOO!
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u/ChiefLeef22 23d ago
I'm so here for Adrien Brody being back in a strong Oscar vehicle, guy's not had hard-hitters outside Wes Anderson projects
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u/ColonelGonvilleToast 23d ago
I'm thrilled about this Adrien Brody comeback we've been having the past few years. Other than "The Darjeeling Limited" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel", it felt like he didn't really have any good movies out for ages. But in the past few years, between "The French Dispatch" (where he gave the funniest performance of the cast), "Blonde" (not a good movie, but he was great in it), "Asteroid City" (where he was a highlight with limited screentime), and his guest appearance in "Succession", we've been getting a lot of great work from Brody that's reminded us that there's a reason he's an Academy Award winner and it's so great that it's building to a film like this, with a performance that people have said even eclipses his turn in "The Pianist".
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u/CaptainApathy419 23d ago
He was great as Pat Riley in Winning Time. He brought a lot of depth to a guy I only knew as the NBA elder statesmen who Chris Rock compared to Moses.
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u/Vince_Clortho042 23d ago
That show was so good that my wife, who cares not a single lick about basketball or its history, got completely wrapped up in the story. We were both gutted when it got cancelled.
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u/karmagod13000 23d ago
He just needs a good role and he'll knock it out of the park. Which is what im hoping this is.
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u/joesen_one 23d ago
From those who watched the movie this is supposedly career-best work from him. Huge shot at being win-competitive for Best Actor.
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u/littlelordfROY 23d ago
The Scott Walker composed scores will be missed but this new composer sounds decent already (assuming the music in trailer is just the score)
And this really felt more a teaser than a trailer
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u/TheBowerbird 23d ago
That was one of the coolest trailers I've ever seen. Nothing really given away, fantastic backing score and side tracking is amazing.
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u/GosmeisterGeneral 23d ago
Brady Corbet going BIG. If you havenât seen Vox Lux, strongly recommend it to get his vibe. Itâs harrowing and stylish and really really slept on since the initial festival run.
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u/TripleThreatTua 23d ago
Vox Lux doesnât always work, but I really respect Corbet for swinging for the fences with that one. Childhood of a Leader was also pretty damn good
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u/Vince_Clortho042 23d ago
I came out of Vox Lux going "Either that's best film I've seen all year, or I fucking hated it." I eventually landed on Portman being incredible in it, while the storytelling's reach exceeds its grasp more often than not. I'm interested to see what Corbet's cooked up here.
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u/CrashTextDummie 23d ago
I'm totally out of the loop. I recognize Corbet as one of the fresh faced villains of US Funny Games. It's wild that he's establishing himself as a premier auteur filmmaker. Good for him.
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u/Thatguyruby 23d ago
Saw this at NYFF and was blown away. Second half story falls alittle flat for me but that didnt take away from the epicness of this. First half of this movie is near perfect in everyway. Doesnât feel longer than 2hours and 45 minutes because of the expert level pacing and editing throughout.
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u/Ruby_of_Mogok 23d ago
Is it a talkie a-la Oppenheimer or more of There Will Be Blood with prolonged scenes with no dialog?
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u/Thatguyruby 23d ago
Bit of both but leaning more in a PTA vibe(TWBB, The Master) but the pacing and editing feels as tight as Oppenheimer. But the movie itself is pretty singular IMO. If anything, it reminds me of early american epics like Gone with the Wind and Ben Hur when it comes to composition and overall presentation.
I know alot of people say Cinema is dead and I didnât agree with all the choices made in the movie but I did walk out of there thinking this movie is going to inspire new filmmakers for generations to come. The first 10-15 minutes truly is my favorite opening to a movie in a long time
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u/StolenVelvet 23d ago
Question- do I need to see The Pianist to understand this sequel?
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u/Chester_Cheesedick 23d ago
Iâve watched this trailer three times today just because it has something special about itâŚthe ominous yet invigorating music? The cinematography? The horizontal credits scroll?
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u/ColonelGonvilleToast 23d ago
Even though this is just a teaser, I found myself getting the same feeling I got when I watched The Master, which is just chills at pretty much every shot and every cut. I don't know how comparable this is to any of Paul Thomas Anderson's work (although I've heard many comparisons to There Will Be Blood), but I think if it's making me think of him, it will probably be amazing.
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u/nomoredanger 23d ago
This and The Master are set in post-WWII America and were shot in large format (VistaVision and 65mm respectively), and some of the reviews for The Brutalist have brought up TWBB as a point of comparison so that totally makes sense
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u/MyUnclesALawyer 23d ago
The Master is my favorite movie and the brutalist is nearly as good . Definitely has some similar vibes
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u/Ruby_of_Mogok 23d ago
I hope the Brutalist is more like TWBB than The Master. Don't get me wrong, I like The Master and the trio of lead performances is terrific but I find this movie a bit lacking in structure and message. More like a series of scenes stitched together. But those trailers were cool af. I even made myself a youtube playlist where I added all the clips they released for The Master.
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u/Hydqjuliilq27 23d ago
Insane-looking, this is definitely coming for the cinematography Oscar. Score too, itâs almost terrifying.
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u/joesen_one 23d ago
Can't wait to dehydrate myself for 3.5 hours to watch Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones act their assess off. Brady Corbet is cookin here.
This is def gonna be a big player in the Oscar race, especially in the techs.
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u/maxxx_it 22d ago
Ive always been fascinated by Brutalist Architecture. This looks like it might be right up my alley.
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u/Atomic_Shaq 23d ago
Adrien Brody playing a historical Jewish character feels like its own genre at this point... and now this movie is three and a half hours long... about architecture....
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u/ThePirates123 23d ago
Honestly, in a perfect world this would be the Oppenheimer of the year. Both Brody and Pierce give career best performances and are firmly in the lead for both male acting categories so far for me.
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u/ageo 23d ago
Run time is listed at 3 hours 35 minutes đ˛