Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.

In the film, the imaginary building evokes both the best and worst of postwar architecture and brutalism, with camera angles and lighting emphasizing its giant volumes of space and hard geometric ...

Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.

It is exceedingly rare to have a major Hollywood film take architecture as its central ... Coppola’s Megalopolis and Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist are wildly different in tone and tenor ...

“Brutalist architecture is representative of something that people do not understand and that they want torn down and ripped away,” he said. “So, the film is about how post-war psychology ...

Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that László creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.