{"id":632962,"date":"2024-09-01T13:42:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T10:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/director-brady-corbet-gets-emotional-discussing-staggeringly-ambitious-post-war-epic-the-brutalist\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T13:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T10:42:14","slug":"director-brady-corbet-gets-emotional-discussing-staggeringly-ambitious-post-war-epic-the-brutalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/director-brady-corbet-gets-emotional-discussing-staggeringly-ambitious-post-war-epic-the-brutalist\/","title":{"rendered":"#Director Brady Corbet Gets Emotional Discussing Staggeringly Ambitious Post-War Epic \u2018The Brutalist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Venice Film Festival is buzzing over director Brady Corbet\u2019s monumental historical drama The Brutalist<\/em>, starring\u00a0Adrien Brody,\u00a0Felicity Jones and\u00a0Guy Pearce. The film won\u2019t officially premiere until Sunday night, but the thunderous app<\/a>lause and rapt excitement that followed the film out of its first press screenings on the Lido has many festival-goers speculating that it\u2019s the movie to beat for this year\u2019s Golden Lion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n With a 3.5-hour runtime and a ten-minute intermission in the middle, the film has all the thematic heft and intellectual rigor befitting its subject: the historical trauma and artistic vision that gave rise to the great works of mid-century American Brutalist architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n The Brutalist\u00a0<\/em>chronicles the journey of Hungarian-born Jewish architect, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 T\u00f3th (Brody), who emigrates to the United States in 1947 to experience the \u201cAmerican dream.\u201d Initially forced to toil in poverty, he soon wins a contract with a mysterious and wealthy client, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Pearce), that will change the course of the next 30 years of his life.\u00a0Jones co-stars as T\u00f3th\u2019s wife Erzs\u00e9bet while Joe Alwyn plays the rich industrial\u2019s mercurial son. Corbet and his wife, Norwegian filmmaker and actress Mona Fastvold, co-wrote the film.<\/p>\n

\n Although exhaustively researched, The Brutalist<\/em> is a work of fiction. Corbet said he had tried to find an example of one of the great Bauhaus architects who became \u201cstuck in the quagmire of the war, but was able to rebuild their lives in America,\u201d consulting with French architect and architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen, who died in August 2023.<\/p>\n

\n \u201c[He said] no, there are zero examples, which I found really haunting, because there were so many architects out of the Bauhaus that had so much talent, and we didn\u2019t ever get to see what it was that they were planning to build for the future,\u201d Corbet explained. \u201cThis movie, unfortunately, is a fantasy film. It\u2019s a virtual history. This is the only way for me of accessing the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Corbet said the movie is dedicated to those artists who \u201cdidn\u2019t get to realize their visions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n An auteurist work to the core and a triumph of directorial determination, the film took more than seven years to make \u2014 with various false starts and financing challenges \u2014 and it was shot on 70mm film stock in the mid-century VistaVision format. The beautiful retro format reportedly required the filmmakers to transport 26 reels of film, weighing some 300 pounds, to Italy for the film\u2019s world premiere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n Corbet said he was deliberately referencing films from the past. \u201cWe were looking at a lot of the choreography of films like [Hitchcock\u2019s] Rope<\/em> and many films shot in VistaVision, because the camera back then was even bigger than it is now, and it sort of affected the mise en scene in a way,\u201d the director said. \u201cSo we tried to restrict ourselves \u2014 even though we are capable of putting a camera on a Steadicam and we have technology<\/a> available to us that we didn\u2019t used to \u2014 we did our best to try and evoke a bygone style of filmmaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Guy Pearce said he found filming with an old-school film camera that was \u201cso noisy\u201d actually \u201csort of invigorating and exciting.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n He added: \u201cFor those of us who have sort of spanned the era of working on film and now working in the digital realm, it\u2019s really lovely to work with machines that you know are actually working and have a sort of a time limit \u2014 you know, a film canister that only lasts 10 minutes. There\u2019s sort of an organic process that belongs there, and you feel like a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Corbet grew emotional at several stages throughout the press conference when discussing the struggles of making The Brutalist <\/em>and holding to his artistic vision through its long development and production process.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis was an incredibly difficult film to make. I\u2019m very emotional today, because we\u2019ve been working on it for seven years, and it felt urgent every day for the better part of a decade,\u201d the director said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m just really grateful to everyone that spent three and a half hours with it last night and will spend three and a half hours with it later today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Commenting on the film\u2019s structure and extensive run time, Corbet noted that \u201cthis film does everything that we are told that we are not allowed to do,\u201d but said he felt it \u201cquite silly\u201d to talk about the film\u2019s running time as a negative. <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s like criticizing a book for being 700 pages versus 100 pages,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve read great novellas. I\u2019ve read great, you know, multi-volume masterpieces. And you know, for me, it\u2019s just about how much story there is to tell. Maybe the next thing we\u2019ll make will be 45 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n He noted that \u201cthere are many stories that cannot be told in Hollywood,\u201d noting that the core story of the movie is \u201cabout a character that flees fascism only to encounter capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The Brutalist<\/em>\u2018s Venice premiere marks a return for Corbet to familiar turf. The actor-turned-auteur delivered his first film there, The Childhood of a Leader<\/em>, winning the prestigious event\u2019s prize for best debut film. He returned with the Natalie Portman and Jude Law starrer Vox Lux<\/a><\/em>, which premiered in the festival\u2019s main competition.<\/p>\n

\n Corbet started his press conference by thanking the Venice Festival for supporting his films \u201cwhen no one was [it] really it made my films possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n He closed the press conference with words of thanks for his wife, and co-screenwriter Fastvold, \u201cwho wrote this film with me and made this film with me, and stood by me when I was not the easiest person to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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