Awards Voters: Don’t Forget About Felicity Jones and Her Steely Turn in Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’
variety.comCarole Horst When Felicity Jones hits the screen in “The Brutalist,” it’s like a bucket of cold water dashed on the pretensions of the characters we’ve already spent some 90 minutes with, learning about their struggles, dreams, histories.
Erzsébet (Jones) is smart, highly educated and most important, skeptical, in contrast to her husband, László Toth (Adrien Brody), an architect of soaring artistic and uncompromising vision.
The vision of director Brady Corbet, who co-wrote “The Brutalist” with Mona Fastvold, encompasses nothing less than the American Dream, the stain of antisemitism and postwar capitalist power.
Hungarian-Jewish couple Erzsébet and László are survivors of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, having been separated during the chaos of WWII and the aftermath of surrender.
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