Following major success at the Golden Globes, Brady Corbet’s immense, sinister epic on a Jewish émigré architect and American wealth arrives at the Odyssey.
Having escaped the Holocaust without his wife and niece, László Tóth starts again in Philadelphia, rising from obscurity when a major industrialist notices his brilliant design skills. Entrusted with building a monolithic complex in his family’s honour, he becomes more renowned than ever – but increasing distance from his home and family, and his monstrously entitled patron, bring him much higher costs. Directing and co-writing with Mona Fastvold, Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader) tells a classic, extraordinarily rich story of art and life suffocated by capitalism, combining cinematic craft (there’s even an intermission) with novelistic detail and feeling. Adrien Brody, refining his great work in The Pianist, triumphs as the lead.
Part 1: 100mins | Intermission: 15 mins | Part 2: 100mins
