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Referenced in Close Up: Why Do We Need the Venice Film Festival?
Chronology
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are forever changed by a mysterious, wealthy client. IMDb editor Arno Kazarian offers sneak peeks at 12 films he’s screening at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous and strangely erotic Misericordia. Laszlo Toth was also the name of the man who defaced Michelangelo’s statue, the Pietà, with a hammer. (2024).
The Brutalist is full of surprises
The characters are not what you expect — not at the end of “Scooby Doo,” but in the subtler, incremental way that real people reveal themselves — unfolding over time, in a new context, or as forced by circumstance. This is a post-World War II horror. Adrien Brody’s Laszlo, a Jewish architect who escaped the clutches of bloody Europe, finds himself in the welcoming arms of America. Or is confronted with them — in a frantic opening sequence that recalls a literal birth by the Statue of Liberty.
What is the lesson?
Their journey becomes a constant navigation of life’s multiple horrors — existential, professional, interpersonal, intimate — never losing sight of the price of great achievement, and never appreciating the value of that price in the first place. Is it the shameful discovery that your success came not in spite of your trauma, but because of it? Do we have a debt to abuse? With the forces of culture, land, power, and those who wield them, in creating our brutal legacies?
But there’s no romance
Does the gasoline we burn along the way make more sense? The film is charming, looks cool, and isn’t boring (did you hear it’s long?). It looks like it’s based on an old, mysterious novel—a book I’d love to dig through for some details the film refuses to give away. And any greater understanding of Lazslo’s arrival, the machinations of his family, his land, and his uprooting, for better or worse, seems to be constructing for us.
Check out our list of exciting new films from this year’s film festivals, including Venice, TIFF, the New York Film Festival, and more
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