The 215-minute, Oscar-tipped epic that could save Hollywood – if we let it
The IndependentThere’s nothing Hollywood likes better than a bumptious young director with talent to burn – at least until the world turns and puts them out of business. This year’s model is 36-year-old Brady Corbet, whose new film, The Brutalist, a 215-minute period epic shot on defunct film stock, has become the unlikely frontrunner in the 2025 Oscar race. Last year’s Megalopolis, Coppola’s first feature since 2011, could almost be The Brutalist’s wealthier cousin – it’s a long, lush movie about a visionary architect who is determined to make his masterpiece and likewise has to battle a corrupt east coast establishment. open image in gallery Unlikely Oscar frontrunner: Adrien Brody in Brady Corbet’s ‘The Brutalist’ Years from now an enterprising film professor might build a college module around these two films, showing the right and wrong way to make an independent arthouse picture. open image in gallery Exasperating: Aubrey Plaza in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ The auteur theory crested in the Sixties and Seventies and made heroes of a number of talented, distinctive directors, Coppola among them.
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