Does the race for the best film of the year already have a clear winner? Here's what you should know about one of 2024's most ambitious movies.
It’s easy for a movie to become overhyped during the fall festival season. Every year, it seems like at least one film receives rapturous early reactions at festivals like Venice and Telluride, only to garner little more than a disappointed shrug from the general public. The Brutalist , due to no fault of its own, has seemingly all the makings of being one of those movies.
Recommended Videos There is a fine line between positive hype and the kind that sets a film up to fail, and it would seem to most that The Brutalist had almost immediately crossed that line. Having recently attended the West Coast premiere of the movie at this year’s Beyond Fest in Los Angeles, though, I feel confident in saying that its early reactions were — if still a bit overzealous in their comparisons and superlatives — mostly justified.
It’s in László and Harrison’s relationship that The Brutalist‘s early comparisons to There Will Be Blood feel the most apt. Much like how Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano’s characters in the latter film functions as a metaphor for the relationship between capitalism and religion in American history, The Brutalist‘s central dynamic allows it to explore the timeless bond and battle between art and commerce.
While you do feel the film’s length by the time it’s over, The Brutalist is — to its credit — never a slog to get through. It is well-paced and, thanks to Corbet and Fastvold’s shared, pitch-black sense of humor, far funnier than anyone would rightly expect it to be. The film features some of the most surprisingly funny dialogue exchanges of the year, and the delicate sprinkling of comedy throughout The Brutalist stops the sadness of it from ever becoming numbing.
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