‘The Brutalist’ trailer welcomes to Best Actor contender Adrien Brody to America [Watch]
Audiences outside the film festival bubble and the awards season industrial complex will soon get a chance to see Brady Corbert’s “The Brutalist.” On Tuesday, A24 released the first teaser trailer for the epic Oscar contender starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce.
“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,” reads a synopsis provided by A24. “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…”
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Brody stars as Toth and is widely predicted to receive his second Best Actor nomination for the film. He was previously nominated and won for “The Pianist” in 2002. Jones and Pearce are also predicted to garner nominations – it would be the second for the actress and the first for the prolific character actor. Likewise, Corbet is pegged to receive Oscar nominations in Best Director and Best Original Screenplay (he co-wrote the film with his wife, Mona Fastvold).
“The Brutalist” is the biggest movie of the year, almost literally. The film is 215 minutes in length with a 15-minute intermission built into the reels. As a result, it feels like two halves of an American epic run consecutively – think “The Godfather” and “The Godfather Part II” if those films were released at the same time. Corbet shot the project in VistaVision on 35mm film, and it has been presented in 70mm at festivals in Venice, Toronto, and New York. Corbet won the Silver Lion Award for best directing at the Venice Film Festival, where “The Brutalist” had its world premiere. A24 picked up the feature soon after its Venice debut and quickly dated it for a year-end release.
The trailer, which includes a snippet of the score by composer Daniel Blumberg, can be seen below. The movie is out in theaters on December 20.
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