October 22nd 2024.
The entertainment world is buzzing with excitement after catching a glimpse of the highly anticipated film, dubbed as the 'next Oppenheimer'. With predictions of an Oscar success in 2025, this movie has already made a name for itself despite having a budget of just $10,000,000. Titled The Brutalist, it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, taking critics by storm and quickly emerging as the surprise favorite for its impressive scope and powerful performances.
Now, the first trailer for The Brutalist has been released, giving audiences a taste of director Brady Corbet's bold style and the grandeur of the 'American Dream' portrayed in the film. Starring a talented cast including Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, and Alessandro Nivola, this major awards-season contender was made for a fraction of the cost of other highly anticipated releases, such as Joker: Folie à Deux with a budget of $200 million and Megalopolis with $120 million.
In my review for Metro, I was captivated by the nearly four-hour epic and described it as "compelling", "enthralling" and "the film to beat at the Oscars". I even compared it to a cinematic version of an Arthur Miller stage play. Many others have also drawn comparisons to iconic films like The Godfather and There Will Be Blood, as well as Christopher Nolan's intellectual blockbuster Oppenheimer, which took home the best picture award at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Interestingly, The Brutalist's reported budget was $100 million, ten times that of The Brutalist. This news has only added to the excitement and anticipation surrounding the film's release. "Sometimes you begin to lose faith that we'll ever get a certain kind of film again, and then something like Oppenheimer or The Brutalist comes along and it fills you with enough relief to still hope for the next," tweeted Robert Daniels, associate editor for Roger Ebert, in reaction to The Brutalist's trailer. Film writer Kyle Pinion at ScreenRex commented, "Baby, this is Oppenheimer level stuff. This is Orson Welles. This is the closest a filmmaker comes to kissing heaven."
The trailer shared a glimpse of the sweeping score and brief glimpses of Brody's character, László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant who leaves behind the horrors of his past in post-World War Two Europe for a new life in America. Fans were swooning over the trailer, with some even predicting an Oscar win for Brody, who previously won best actor for The Pianist in 2003 at the young age of 29. "A movie that ends with 'ist' where Adrien Brody stars in? Yeah, this is about to be an Oscar," wrote one fan on Twitter.
The Brutalist is undoubtedly one of the most highly anticipated films of the year. "An American epic the likes of which we feared we'd never see again, let alone done at this magnitude," added another fan. With a stunning 97% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, it has been described as a "major moment in cinema" and a "modern-day masterpiece". Jonathan Dean from The Times tweeted, "The Brutalist is an out-and-out masterpiece; a magnificent beast of a film with glorious set pieces and a gut punch ending, the most invigorating four hours I've spent in a cinema for years."
Director and co-writer Brady Corbet has proven that a Hollywood budget is not necessary to create a successful and visually stunning film. In The Brutalist, we follow visionary architect László and his wife Erzsébet as they flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America. Their lives are changed forever when they encounter a mysterious and wealthy client, Harrison Lee Van Buren, over a 30-year period. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 1 and is set to release in UK cinemas on January 24, 2025, and in US cinemas on December 20.
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