Inside the Making of ‘The Brutalist,’ One of the Year’s Best Films

One of the most ambitious films of the year, Brady Corbet’s 215-minute psychodrama The Brutalist stars Adrien Brody as László Tóth (Adrien Brody), an accomplished but darkly wounded Hungarian-Jewish architect. Forcibly separated from his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones), the Holocaust survivor immigrates to postwar America to find a better life and instead confronts a capitalist society—embodied by industrialist patron Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce)—that relentlessly rewards conformity even as it seemingly reveres originality.