PRODUCTION THE BRUTALIST
D irected by Brady Corbet and starring Adrien Brody, The Brutalist is an ambitious film in every respect. Stretching out over more than three and a half hours, it spans three decades in the life of László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor and visionary architect, as he toils away at the greatest project of his life. The fictional Tóth is an early proponent of what we now call brutalism: an architectural style characterised by its monumental concrete forms and striking geometry.
Capturing the essence of brutalism – its weight, scale and imposing beauty – was a key challenge for DOP Lol Crawley, BSC, whose previous credits include Ballast (2008), Four Lions (2010) and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). “Architecture is inherently static, but film is a medium of movement,” he contemplates. “So the first question we needed to answer was: how can we express the experience of these spaces, how people move through them and how light interacts with them?”
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