"Brutalist" - the main contender for the Oscar

Today, the Oscar winners will be announced in Los Angeles, and one of the top contenders for the award is "The Brutalist." The monumental film epic directed by Brady Corbet is presented in 10 nominations, including in the category “Best Film”. About how architecture became one of the main characters of "Brutalist", in the author's column by Stanislav Anisimov. How not to lose yourself and get lost in monumental architecture? The Brutalist is the third film by 36-year-old director Brady Corbet. He worked on the idea and plot of the film for seven years. As a result, the tape has a significant timekeeping: 3 hours 34 minutes. Late '40s. The main character is a fictional Hungarian architect of Jewish origin Laszlo Toth. A concentration camp survivor, he emigrates to America. Here he receives an order from an eccentric millionaire to build a recreational center. Its implementation will change a lot in the life of the Laszlo family. “This is a film about how the past affects the present, embodied in the architecture that my character deals with,” said actor Adrian Brody. Experts have already noted the high quality of the image on the screen. The film was filmed in Vista Vision format, which was developed over 60 years ago. Unlike the standard 35mm, VistaVision extends the film through the camera horizontally. This allows you to increase the frame size - just for shooting large-scale architecture. Brutalism is a post-war trend in architecture that arose within modernism in the 50s of the last century. Rough, raw materials. Demonstration of simplicity and austerity. Such architecture can be found all over the world today: in England, France, the USA and, of course, in Russia. “These are no longer simple rectangles, parallelepipedes, as they are rightly called, but more complex volumes, that is, a pile of these volumes. This, of course, produced a very different effect, both externally, visually, and for filmmakers. This architecture became a very good design for the film hero. Especially when we’re talking about some serious business. And it became a symbol of science, because it is a very high-tech architecture, which has become synonymous with scientificity, explained architectural historian Denis Romodin. If you look from above, the building of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow is built in the form of a double helix of DNA – the perfect embodiment of the theme of identity and memory, so relevant for the film “Brutalist”. For architect Laszlo Toth, memories of the past are a matter of survival and self-determination. The project he is building, a giant concrete recreational complex, is copied from the barracks and torture chambers of Buchenwald. Is it criticism or deliberate revenge of an architect on an inhospitable country? The hero of Adrian Brody describes the complex as an optical device that directs a person’s gaze and allows him to see something in the surrounding landscape and in himself. This film is best seen once in order to understand what it reveals in us. The walls we build around ourselves, or the landscape we can look at together.

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