The Brutalist at BFI IMAX

Brady Corbet’s audacious and enrapturing American post-war epic The Brutalist has stunned critics and is widely tipped to scoop up several Oscars at this year's Academy Awards, with ten nominations including for Best Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Screenplay, and Best Picture.

The film stars a luminous Adrien Brody as a (fictional) Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth who arrives in America in 1947 with nothing but his name. Navigating the poverty and degradation of a new life, his sole beacon of hope is the letters he exchanges with his wife (Felicity Jones), who remains stranded in Europe. But he soon crosses paths with a wealthy magnate (Guy Pearce) who can potentially change his fortunes and offer him a path to the American Dream.

Novelistic and richly detailed, Corbet’s portrait of Tóth is a compelling excavation into the immigrant experience, and a potent rumination on the dark connections between capitalism, power, trauma and art.

Beautifully constructed, packed with magnetic performances and created with stunning VistaVision cinematography – this is an epic cinematic experience that is best enjoyed on the biggest possible screen.

What the critics say:

"Epic Adrien Brody postwar architectural drama stuns and electrifies" ~The Guardian

"This majestic historical epic is the film to beat for the big prizes come Oscar night" ~The Times

"Adrien Brody’s Jewish refugee mud-wrestles American capitalism in this astonishing film" ~The Irish Times

"A work of staggering mystery and power, with an epic scope and a visual style to match" ~The i Paper

"The Brutalist is a new Great American Masterpiece" ~Rolling Stone

BFI IMAX Screenings of The Brutalist

Fri 28 Feb at 1:30pm
Sat 1 Mar at 1pm
Sun 2 Mar at 2:15pm
Mon 3 Mar at 6:30pm
Tue 4 Mar at 1:15pm
Thu 6 Mar at 1:30pm