Venice film festival 2024

Review

The Brutalist review – epic Adrien Brody postwar architectural drama stuns and electrifies

Peter Bradshaw
Thursday 5 September 2024

Brady Corbet’s amazing and engrossing epic The Brutalist is about the design of postwar America and what was mixed into its foundations at the building stage. It asks us to decide if and how the brutalism of the title applies to something other than architecture, and wonders about the future ruin of what we all imagine at the drawing board of youth: an American Ozymandias.

Adrien Brody / I don´t have an option

Adrien Brody

ADRIEN BRODY: “I DON’T HAVE AN OPTION”

SHORT PROFILE

Name: Adrien Nicholas Brody

DOB: 14 April 1973

Place of birth: Woodhaven, New York, United States

Occupation: Actor, film producer

Emma Robertson

Mr. Brody, would you say you have more creative energy these days than ever?

I'm lit up! I mean, I've always had creative energy, I think I just have more inspiration now. I think we've all lived through this difficult time and it has awakened in all of us a concept of time, and how fleeting our time is and can be... I want to apply my energy doing good and creating and hopefully not squandering that. That's what I live for. I do it each day in several mediums: I paint incessantly till my back is broken. I make music — I've been making music for 30 years now — and compose and create soundscapes. I just have this yearning to create.

Margot Robbie

17 Stars Who Went to Extreme Lengths for Movie Roles

August 14, 2018

Margot Robbie was nearly unrecognizable as Tonya Harding in 2017’s I, Tonya, but not just because on-set makeup artists transformed her with prosthetics, makeup, and a few very ’80s wigs. She also trained to look like one of the world’s former best skaters on the ice: Robbie actually skated for several hours a day, several days a week for five months (although she still couldn’t land the coveted triple axel, which is understandable). Robbie is far from the only actor to go to extreme lengths to prepare for a movie role in recent years; check out the list, including Christian Bale, Jamie Dornan, and more.