After earning rave reviews for his feature directorial debut The Childhood of a Leader, actor-turned-filmmaker Brady Corbet is currently out and about on the promotional tour for his second film, the Natalie Portman-headlined Vox Lux, but it seems he’s already turning his attention his next project.
Speaking to Variety at the Stockholm Film Festival, Corbet has been discussing his next feature The Brutalist, which will explore the life of a Jewish architect who emigrates to the United States after suffering through the horrors of the Holocaust during the Second World War.
“The Brutalist is about a character who survived the camps, and also about his wife who survived camps but is stuck in a displaced persons camp on the Hungarian border. This is a film that tries to take a look at what it would mean to lose everything that you’ve built, what it would do to your psyche.
“When we think of what was lost during wartime we usually think about the human lives that were lost, but we rarely think of the livelihoods that were lost. Right now because of the ongoing immigration crisis in Europe and in America a different crisis, I think it’s very, very important to reflect on the immigrant experience; and of course with anti-Semitism strangely on a rise again, it is important for us to look at its origins.”
Corbet is currently working on the script for The Brutalist with his The Childhood of a Leader co-writer Mona Fastvold, and hopes to have the screenplay completed within the next six months. Vox Lux meanwhile opens on December 7th; watch the trailer here.
