When GamesRadar+ sits down with The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet to discuss his new post-war epic, he's just been nominated for Best Director at this year's BAFTAs. The movie is also up for eight other gongs, including Best Film, and, 10 days prior, picked up three Golden Globes. "It's totally unexpected, to be honest," Corbet tells us. "I assumed that the film would be a lot more divisive than it's been. Some people hate it but, for the most part, it's been a very warm reception." A week after our conversation, the movie was nominated for 10 Oscars.
Opening in 1947 on an immigrant steamship from Europe to New York and spanning over three decades over its three-and-a-half-hour runtime, The Brutalist follows renowned Bauhaus architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody) as he ventures to the US from Hungary to start a new life. When we speak to Brody, he praises the film for being "both vast and very personal and intimate". He says László's "complexity" stood out to him, "his flaws and frailty and strengths".
