Production designer Judy channeled Adrien Brody's Brutalist architect, László Tóth, for Brady Corbet's 'The Brutalist.' ...

Adrien Brody plays an architect with grand visions. We need that ambition.

Of course, that’s not all. “The Brutalist,” which takes its name from the raw style of architecture that Tóth creates, is also about the incalculable trauma that followed World War II.

Without confusing the film’s title with the Brutalist style of the 1960s and ’70s, we can see throughout the film that architecture is not a mere style, but always reflects the tensions of the ...

Image-conscious Harrison then hires the Hungarian to build an expensive showstopper monument to his late mother, and a community center, in his novel brutalism style. The perilous struggles of ...