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The Brutalist is a 2024 epic period drama film directed and produced by Brady Corbet from a script he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. An international co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and Hungary, it stars Adrien Brody as László Tóth, a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and immigrates to the United States, where he struggles to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy client changes his life. The cast also features Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola.

The Brutalist premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2024, where Corbet was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction. It received positive reviews and was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the American Film Institute. It won three awards at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama. It was released in the United States by A24 on December 20, 2024, and set to be released in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures and Focus Features on January 24, 2025.

Plot
Part 1: The Enigma of Arrival
Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth, forcibly separated from his wife and orphaned niece, immigrates to America. A former architect, László stays with relatives in Philadelphia while he looks for work.

In 1947, László helps with his cousin Attila's furniture business. They are commissioned to renovate part of a home owned by wealthy industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren at the behest of his son Harry, while his father is away. Harrison arrives home early, enraged at the state of the renovations, and sacks the men, unpaid. Later, Attila asks László to leave their home, citing their firing and his wife's false claims that László made advances on her.

In 1950, László, now a heroin user, is living in charity housing with Gordon, a single father László befriended soon after immigrating. Harrison turns up to tell him the architectural community has lauded his modern renovation, and to pay the money he owes László, which the men then spend on heroin.

Harrison invites László to a party in his honor where it is revealed that the Hungarian was an accomplished architect in Europe. Aware of László's desires to leave a monumental legacy, Harrison commissions him to construct a grand project in tribute to his late mother, a community center comprising a library, theater, gymnasium, and a chapel. Work begins immediately with László living and working on site, employing Gordon, both now fully functioning heroin addicts. For László's services, Harrison has his personal lawyer expedite the immigration of his wife and niece to America.

Part 2: The Hard Core of Beauty
In 1953, László greets his wife and niece, Erzsébet and Zsófia, at the train station, where he discovers that due to their suffering in wartime, Erzsébet is wheelchair bound with osteoporosis and Zsófia has become mute. During construction, László clashes with other developers hired by Harrison over departing from his design, and Harry chides László as being merely "tolerated," with lewd remarks about Zsófia. László warns her to avoid Harry, who it is implied already assaulted her. Following the derailment of the train carrying materials and ensuing legal costs, a furious Harrison abandons the construction, putting everyone involved out of work.

Years later, László now works for an architecture firm in New York City, where he and Erzsébet live a metropolitan life. Zsófia, no longer mute, is expecting a child with her new Jewish husband. She announces they are moving to Jerusalem in the then-newly established state of Israel. One day, Harrison contacts László to resume construction.

While in the mines of Carrara to purchase marble, Harrison rapes László in a show of dominance and denigrates him. Back on site, an increasingly traumatized László begins to unravel, becoming aggressive, chaotic, and firing Gordon. After Lázsló almost kills Erzsébet by attempting to treat her osteoporosis with his heroin, she proposes they live in Jerusalem with Zsófia and her family, to which he agrees. Erzsébet also explains that, while high on heroin, Lázsló unknowingly revealed Harrison's act of sexual abuse while they were in Carrara.

Shortly after, and now having furiously abandoned her wheelchair in favor of walking, Erzsébet pays Harrison a visit at his home where she calls him a rapist in front of his family and associates. At this, Harry violently attacks her, guests start leaving and Harrison disappears within the community center.

Epilogue: The First Architecture Biennale
In 1980, Erzsébet has died, and a retrospective of László's work is held in Venice. The exhibition includes the community center, finally completed after a decade's hiatus. A now adult Zsófia, accompanied by her teenage daughter and an aging László, gives a speech highlighting how their experience with the Holocaust inspired his works. She ends by recounting what László once told her: "No matter what the others try and sell you, it is the destination, not the journey.”

Cast
Adrien Brody as László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America
Felicity Jones as Erzsébet Tóth, László's wife
Guy Pearce as Harrison Lee Van Buren, a wealthy industrialist who becomes László's most important client
Joe Alwyn as Harry Lee Van Buren, Harrison's entitled and pompous young son
Raffey Cassidy as Zsófia, László's mute, orphaned teenage niece
Ariane Labed as adult Zsófia
Stacy Martin as Maggie Van Buren, Harry's twin sister
Emma Laird as Audrey, Attila's wife
Isaach de Bankolé as Gordon, László's friend
Alessandro Nivola as Attila, a furniture store owner in Philadelphia and László's cousin
Michael Epp as Jim Simpson
Jonathan Hyde as Leslie Woodrow
Peter Polycarpou as Michael Hoffman
Maria Sand as Michelle Hoffman
Salvatore Sansone as Orazio, László's friend in Carrara