'The Brutalist's Final Trailer Reveals a Timely Tale
Adrian Brody in 'The Brutalist'
A24
The Golden Globe nominations for the calendar year 2024 are out, and several upcoming arrivals, including The Brutalist, have already received multiple nominations. The film arrives in the U.S. in time for Christmas Week. However, it has already garnered stellar reviews from its Venice International Film Festival debut, taking home the prestigious Silver Lion (the festival's equivalent of Best Director) and Best Film at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The Globes have nominated it in seven categories, all but one of which are part of the "Top Line" nominations: Best Motion Picture (Drama), Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score. On the heels of the news, A24 has released the film's final trailer, which is the first time many will learn the film's plot.
The film stars American actor Adrian Brody (The Pianist) as László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America, and Australian actor Guy Pearce (A Spy Among Friends) as Harrison Lee Van Buren, a wealthy industrialist who becomes László's most important client. But just about everyone else in the cast is British, including Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), who plays Erzsébet Tóth, László's wife; Raffey Cassidy (Mr. Selfridge), as Zsófia, László's mute, orphaned teenage niece; and Joe Alwyn (Conversations with Friends), as Harry Lee Van Buren, Harrison's entitled son.
Check out the trailer for a glimpse of the performances Hollywood is already buzzing about.
Here's the film's synopsis:
Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost...
The cast also co-stars Isaach De Bankolé (Black Panther), Alessandro Nivola (Downton Abbey), Stacy Martin (The Serpent), Emma Laird (A Haunting in Venice), Jonathan Hyde (Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes), and Peter Polycarpou (Grantchester).
Brady Corbet (Vox Lux) directed the film, which he co-wrote with his partner, Mona Fastvold. Brian Young, D.J. Gugenheim, and Yellow Bear’s Andrew Morrison executive produced along with Trevor Matthews & Nick Gordon for Brookstreet UK and Andrew Lauren for Andrew Lauren Productions. Joshua Horsfield’s Intake Films and Viktoria Petrányi’s Proton Cinema in Hungary co-produced.
The Brutalist debuts in limited release in the U.S. on Friday, December 20, 2024, and will almost certainly move to wide release in early 2025 after the Oscar nominations are announced.
