Brady Corbet's The Brutalist was the talk of the Lido on Sunday as the seven-years-in-the-making duration impressive lastly got its opening night at the Venice Film Festival's historical Sala Grande movie theater.
The audience inside the best emerged in applause as the credits started to roll on the movie's impressive three-hour, 35-minute running time, providing Corbet and his cast a rousing, festival-best 13-minute standing ovation. Stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones looked teary sometimes by the gushing response to the film.
The Hollywood Reporter provided the movie a rave evaluation, with primary critic David Rooney explaining The Brutalist as “a huge symphony of the immigrant experience” with a “disastrous” efficiency by Brody as Tóth.
The Brutalist has all the thematic heft and intellectual rigor befitting its topic: The historic injury and creative vision that triggered the fantastic works of mid-century American Brutalist architecture. Corbet likewise offers his audience a break amidst the movie's additionally classy and propulsive story. Mid-way through the prolonged runtime, there is a 10-minute intermission, permitting cinemagoers a restroom break or a time out to review the work's developing handling of its styles.
Loudest, wildest and longest standing ovation (12+minutes!!!) I've experienced so far at #Venezia 81 for Brady Corbet, Adrien Brody and their strong The Brutalist (with running time of 3-hr 35 minutes + intermission). Can't inform for sure however Adrien looks teary. And he comes down the … pic.twitter.com/t34560Rt2s
— Chris Gardner (@chrissgardner) September 1, 2024
The Brutalistnarrates the journey of Hungarian-born Jewish designer, László Tóth (Adrien Brody), who emigrates to the United States in 1947 to experience the “American dream.” Required to labor in hardship, he quickly wins an agreement with a mystical and rich customer, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), that will alter the course of the next 30 years of his life. Felicity Jones co-stars as Tóth's partner Erzsébet, while Joe Alwyn plays the abundant commercial's mercurial child. Corbet and his better half, Norwegian filmmaker and starlet Mona Fastvold, co-wrote the movie.
The Brutalist is closer to the churning concepts and dark view of power in the director's launching function,The Childhood of a Leader than his more polarizing disquisition on modern celeb,Vox Lux,” THR‘s Rooney composes. “But it represents a huge leap in scope from both, considering such meaty styles as imagination and compromise, Jewish identity, architectural stability, the immigrant experience, the big-headed insularity of advantage and the long reach of the past.”
Corbet and The Brutalist cast kept it stylish and standard on the red carpet, with the director wearing a black tux, together with Fastvold in a floor-length off-the-shoulder ensemble. Ivorian film legend Isaach de Bankolé, who plays Tóth's buddy Gordon, spiced things up with a sharp black coat bearing a big Angela Davis spot over smooth white slacks and two-toned tennis shoes.
