British GQ: Many bold adjectives have been used to describe The Brutalist, the three-and-a-bit-hour Oscar favourite in which Hungarian architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) migrates to postwar America and finds himself in the thrall of real estate baron Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce). Consult the poster for the biggest one: it's “MONUMENTAL,” as attributed to all five of The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, Time Out and The Hollywood Reporter, which is basically a film marketer's version of flopping their proverbials on the table.
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I really appreciate the attention to detail that this designer had while designing these costumes. Especially with such constraints, its really impressive that the designer managed to find such specificity in the costumes. I have always been of the opinion that menswear is incredibly boring and stagnant throughout much of the past century, but I do understand that it can be used to show a characters economic and social status quite effectively. Also in a movie such as the brutalist this idea is even more important as it has characters that are old money rich and the main character who is a refugee and has very little. I think the use of authentic vintage items definitely helped to add another level of realism to the movie. The comment at the end about recycling costumes is also very interesting, especially for a movie that has been nominated for so many Oscars, it really shows that the size of a budget doesn't need to be as limiting as it may appear.
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