09 February 2025 - 00:00

His third, the monumental drama The Brutalist was, like the previous films, made in collaboration with his partner, Norwegian filmmaker and actress Mona Fastvold. While it shares much of the visual style and thematic concerns of their earlier efforts, this one is the pair’s biggest, boldest and most ambitious yet. It’s the kind of risk-taking, all-or-nothing project that sadly too few American directors are willing to make and its effect is, like the architectural style it celebrates, overbearing, complex and intellectually provocative...