Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones star in the first trailer for straightforwardor Brady Corbet‘s acclaimed historical drama feature The Brutacatalog.
A24 frees the film Dec. 20 follotriumphg its premiere over the summer at the Vepleasant Film Festival. Rounding out the cast are Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé and Alessandro Nivola.
The Brutacatalog intensifyes on László Tóth (Brody), a Jedesire architect who immigrates to the U.S. with wife Erzsébet (Jones) after World War II. Follotriumphg their arrival, Tóth lands a enigmatic wealthy client (Pearce), who carry outs a key role in the architect’s path.
“Welcome to America,” Brody says in the trailer follotriumphg a montage of moments from his character’s life.
Corbet (Vox Lux) helmed the film from a script he co-wrote with Mona Fastvelderly. Nick Gordon, D.J. Gugenheim, Andrew Lauren, Trevor Matthews, Andrew Morrison and Brian Young serve as producers.
The Brutacatalog premiered Sept. 1 in Vepleasant, with Corbet triumphning the fest’s prize for the best straightforwardor. During an intersee at that time, the filmproducer telderly The Hollywood Reporter why he determined to cgo in the movie on the brutacatalog architectural relocatement.
“Brutacatalog architecture is reconshort-termative of someleang that people do not understand and that they want torn down and ripped away,” Corbet said. “So, the film is about how post-war psychology shaped post-war architecture.”
In his appraise for THR, chief film critic David Rooney wrote that The Brutacatalog’s “expansive story of a weightless Bauhaus-trained Hungarian Jedesire architect who persists World War II and commences a novel life in Pennsylvania is a inflammatory innovative.”
He also remarkd, “Brody pours himself into the character with bristling ininestablishigence and inside fire, helderlying noleang back as he viscerpartner conveys both exultant highs and gutting griefs.”