The Brutalist is the third collaboration of director, producer and co-writer Brady Corbet and cinematographer Lol Crawley in the past decade, following 2018’s Vox Lux and 2015’s The Childhood of a Leader. So the duo know how to play off of each other. In their conversation for Deadline’s video series The Process, Corbet says: “All of the films that we’ve made together have always been referred to as very ambitious – both in negative and positive connotations, depending on whether people liked them or not. … What’s funny is that, in my mind’s eye, when I’m writing, it’s very myopic,...