The Brutalist is a epic period drama film directed and produced by Brady Corbet [ 6 ] from a script he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. A co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hungary, starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the United States, where he struggles to achieve the American Dream until a wealthy client changes his life.
They are soon commissioned to renovate the library 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 surprise renovation, and fires the men; Harry does not pay them their fee.
Following the derailment of a train carrying materials and ensuing legal costs, a furious Harrison abandons the project and fires the workers. They announce they are making Aliyah and moving to Jerusalem. An enraged Harry violently escorts her out. Unable to find his father, Harry organizes a search party to find him with his fate ultimately left unclear. The exhibition includes the community center, finally completed after a decade's hiatus.
In September , Deadline reported that director Brady Corbet had chosen the period drama The Brutalist as his next project following the world premiere of his second feature film, Vox Lux. Filming was originally set to start in , [ 21 ] but it was postponed due to the COVID pandemic. After several delays, filming finally began in Budapest , [ 24 ] [ 2 ] Hungary, on March 16, The film was shot using the VistaVision process and cameras, which involves shooting horizontally on 35mm film stock , which was then scanned, with the intention of also making prints for a 70mm film release, which has the same height and was the most practical format to show the original size of the VistaVision frame when projecting film.
The film's score was composed by Daniel Blumberg , who had previously worked with Corbet on the short film Gyuto , with the two working together on the film over a span of seven years. The experimental "Construction" was the first track Blumberg wrote for the score; an early demo was composed on a prepared piano at London's Cafe Oto to create a sound similar to construction noises.
