Even A brick wants to be something, famed architect Louis Kahn once suggested. And boy, does The Brutalist have ambition! This is a post-World War II saga about Holocaust-survivor Jews finding their feet in a xenophobic America, that treats the migrants washing up at its shores as a kindness project, to maybe get a seat at the table but to know their place, to swallow the daily reminders as a consequence of their own weakness. But it is also a film that desperately wants to be about architecture, spaces, legacy, art, and telling your stories through them. Story continues below...
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