Brady Corbett's wildly ambitious period epic the brutalist blows Minds at Venice Premiere gets 13 minutes Standing Ovation the Focus Features release Stars Adrien Brody Felicity Jones Guy Pierce and Joe alwin and has become one of the most buzzed about new movies of the 2024 Venice Film Festival the Focus Features release Stars Adrien Brody phelicity Jones Guy Pierce and Joe allwin and has become one of the most buzzed about new movies of the 2024 Venice Film Festival Brady corbetts the brutalist was the talk of the Leo on Sunday as the 7 years in the making period epic finally received its World premiere at the Venice film festival's historic Salo Grande Cinema the audience inside the premiere erupted in Applause as the credits began to roll on the film's Epic 3-hour 35 minute running time giving Corbett and his cast arousing Festival best 13 minutes standing o Stars Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones looked te at times by the effusive reaction to the movie The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a rave review with Chief critic David Rooney describing the brutalist as a Monumental Symphony Of The Immigrant experience with a devastating performance by Brody as Toof the brutalist has all the thematic heft and intellectual rigor befitting its subject the historical trauma and artistic Vision that gave rise to the great works of midcentury American brutalist architecture but cbear also gives his audience a break amid the film's alternatively elegant and propulsive Story Midway through the lengthy runtime there is a 10-minute intermission allowing cinemag gor a bathroom break or a pause to reflect on The Works evolving handling of its themes the brutalist Chronicles the Journey of Hungarian born Jewish architect lloth Adrien bro who immigrates to the United States in 1947 to experience the American dream initially forced to toil in poverty he soon wins a contract with a mysterious and Wealthy client Harrison Le and burn Guy Pierce that will change the course of the next 30 years of his life Felicity Jones co-stars as toth's wife or zbate while Joe elwin plays the rich Industrials Mercurial son Corbett and his wife Norwegian filmmaker and actress Mona fast V co-wrote the film The brutalist is closer to the churning ideas and dark view of power in the director's debut feature the childhood of a leader than his more polarizing disquisition on contemporary celebrity Vox Lux th hr's Rooney writes but it represents a vast leap in scope from both contemplating such meaty themes as creativity and compromise Jewish identity architectural Integrity The Immigrant experience the arrogant an insularity of privilege and the Long Reach of the past