Filmmaker Brady Corbet has premiered features twice before at Venice , but never at this scale. “ The Brutalist ” is the director’s first feature since 2018’s “Vox Lux,” which starred Natalie Portman as a pop star haunted by a school shooting. Before that, Corbet also premiered “The Childhood of a Leader” (2015) at Venice, announcing a singular cinematic voice after years of acting in indies like “Melancholia,” “Simon Killer,” “Mysterious Skin,” and “Thirteen.
” As Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera revealed during the July 23 press conference announcing the lineup , “ The Brutalist ” will premiere in competition. It’s also a whopping 215 minutes long and, according to Barbera, was shot in 70mm by Lol Crawley, director of photography on the celluloid-shot “Vox Lux” and “The Childhood of a Leader” as well as Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” more recently. Barbera confirmed that the Italian film festival will screen “The Brutalist” as intended in 70mm, with Corbet’s vision marking a recent trend of directors from Christopher Nolan to Paul Thomas Anderson presenting their films in 70mm.
(Though shot with IMAX cameras, fellow Venice competition entry “Joker: Folie à Deux” will at some point also screen in 70mm, though no word yet if Venice will present Todd Phillips’ musical sequel that way.) The cast in the fictional “The Brutalist” is led by Adrien Brody as László Tóth, a Hungarian Jew w.