"A great American masterpiece" - Rolling Stone
"An amazing and engrossing epic" - The Guardian
"If you see only one madly ambitious, wildly allegorical movie this year about a fabled architect whose dream is to design buildings that define the future, make that movie The Brutalist.” - Variety
For our final event of 2024, we are thrilled to announce the latest installment in our Sneak Series - A24's The Brutalist. Fresh off its premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival where Brady Corbet took home the Silver Lion for Best Direction, the Oscar buzz is hot for this one so see it first with ACS before it opens on Dec. 20th in limited release!
Synopsis: Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost...
Directed by Brady Corbet and based on a screenplay by Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, with Isaach de Bankolé and Alessandro Nivola. Runtime: 215 minutes.