‘The Brutalist’: Brady Corbet’s 70mm Epic Is A Flawed But Fascinating Edifice To The Practical Possibilities Of Cinema – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comBrady Corbet’s odyssey into the artistic realms of the 20th century promises, on paper, to be a time-spanning epic. But though the running time is a whopping 3hrs 35 minutes — with a 15-minute interval whether you want it or not — The Brutalist is, surprisingly, much more intimate than that.
The type of 70mm he uses, shot by regular collaborator Lol Crawley, is not the epic canvas of Lean or Kubrick but a way to propose a sense of scale.
It’s the story of a man who thinks big, from a director who also has a vision that doesn’t fit easily into the modest confines of American independent cinema.
It falls somewhat short of its lofty target, but it casts a strange spell and often swells with imagination. Taking his cue from Lars Von Trier, for who he worked as an actor on Melancholia, Brady (with co-writer Mona Fastvold) parses his film into four sections, the first being the Overture.
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