A still from The Brutalist.
The sweeping post-war drama has garnered comparisons to the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and Francis Ford Coppola. Critic Radheyan Simonpillai interviews the buzzy film's director about vision and influence.. The film, about a holocaust survivor trying to find a sense of home and safety in the U.S., was shot anachronistically on VistaVision.
Corbet, too, is hoping for some delayed gratification. "I don't want a film to be finished for a viewer as soon as the credits roll," he says. "I want it to carry on, like a piece of music. It's something that's stuck in your head. It's inconclusive. That's something that's very important to me."A challenging and provocative immigration story about trauma and cycles of violence, Corbet's film, in which the late Philip Seymour Hoffman plays an L.
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