Film: The Brutalist

The Odeon app informs me that I need four hours for this film. So I had to prepare myself to watch it due to its subject matter and lengthy duration. Fortunately, there's an interval, so there’s no guessing when it’s the best time for a loo break. This was also the first film where we nearly finished our shared flask of coffee.

Setting practicalities aside, this is a remarkable film with a lot happening despite its relatively small cast.

We first meet the Brutalist, Laszlo Toth, as he makes it out of Hungary at the end of the war and arrives at the Statue of Liberty. This marks our first glimpse of architecture, which is primarily what drew me to the film. However, the focus is less on architecture and more on the human condition and the harm we inflict on one another, particularly exemplified by the Holocaust, a topic on which education is continually essential.

7/10 because it is a stunning piece of cinema, but I don’t think I’ll watch it again.