Cinematographer Lol Crawley finds the monumental visual language to capture an artform that is essentially static.
The American Dream is subverted in The Brutalist which starts with a shot of the Statue of Liberty upside down. It marks the arrival by boat of the film’s fictional protagonist, László Tóth, a Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor, emigrating to begin a new life only to find the trauma of war amplified in the land of the free.
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