Visually Striking, Spiritually Hollow

This review contains spoilers.

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who migrates to the US, is one of the more visually striking films I’ve ever seen, from its stark landscapes to its sensual interiors.

As it happens, I think that brutalist architecture can be very striking. I can’t claim to be an ex…