Corbet’s comments come on the heels of the BAFTAs, where The Brutalist won four awards –Brady took home best director, Adrien Brody won best actor for his role as Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor, László Tóth, and the film also won best original score and cinematography.
The Brutalist spans 30 years and explores the life of Hungarian Jewish architect László Tóth, who survives the Holocaust and, after emigrating to America with his wife, played by Felicity Jones, crosses paths with the mysterious Harrison Lee Van Buren, played by Guy Pearce, who changes the course of his life.
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet said that he “made zero dollars” from the Oscar-nominated film.
The Vox Lux director explained that he and wife Mona Fastvold, who co-wrote the screenplay for The Brutalist, “made zero dollars on the last two films that we made”.
There’s such a weight to it that it creates its own field of gravity – which, coupled with the same fierce cynicism of Corbet’s previous films, The Childhood of a Leader (2015) and his pop star psychodrama Vox Lux (2018), turns a traditional historical epic into an existentially disturbing monster movie.
