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How do you properly do justice to the life story of a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the US, where he toiled in poverty and indignity in pursuit of the American dream?
According to the director of the highly anticipated new film The Brutalist, the answer is to push back against how long film-makers are given to tell the tale.
Premiering at the Venice film festival on Sunday, the film – which stars Adrien Brody as the Hungarian architect László Tóth – has a running time of 215 minutes and a 15-minute intermission. Movies that go beyond the two-hour mark have increasingly been criticised in recent years as audiences and critics grow weary of sitting in cinema seats for extended periods...
The Times: The Brutalist review — this may be the film to beat at the Oscars
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