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The Brutalist received praise from critics and fans when it was released on December 20, 2024, via A24. The film had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival where it was bestowed with the Golden Lion, the highest honor of the event. It also won awards in three categories at the Golden Globe.
Recently, the film's cinematographer Lol Crawley spoke about how they shot the Brady Corbet-directed period drama. Unlike the digital one filmmakers mostly opt for, this movie has been shot on film, namely on the 35mm VistaVision film. The Brutalist is about a Jewish architect who manages to live through the Holocaust and escape to the United States where he struggles to make something out of his life.
Lol Crawley talks about shooting The Brutalist
Speaking to Variety, Lol Crawley spoke about his experience of shooting the Golden Globe-winning film. He spoke about a certain kind of lens to minimize any kind of distortion in the frame.
He said,
“One thing that came across in photographing any sort of architecture, you tend to want to have minimal distortion from the lenses. You may want to use rectilinear lenses so that you don’t get the same sort of distortion when you shoot a wide-angle lens.”
Crawley then went with the VistaVision film stock for the shoot which was in Paramount Pictures' possession. The studio had come up with the stock back in the 1950s. He spoke about how it helps in achieving a larger format for the film and said,
“As opposed to pulling the film down vertically in a motion picture camera, it’s actually pulling it horizontally across eight perforations at a time. So, you end up with a bigger format, and that means that you’re not forced to shoot on wider angle lenses for a wider field of view.”
Crawley further stated that this format was introduced when television came into the industry and it was competing with films. He stated,
"They were cinematic processes that competed with the advent of television and was a way of drawing audiences back to the cinema.”
In the same interview, Crawley spoke about his favorite scene from the film where the protagonist is working at a mine. The team opted to use a real mine and shot with available light. The cinematographer spoke about it and said,
“It was a dangerous environment because it’s a working mine, and we were very lucky to shoot there, but we had to have quite a small footprint so we couldn’t really bring in generators.”
More about The Brutalist
The Brutalist is the directorial work of Brady Corbet who wrote it with Mona Fastvold. The film stars Adrien Brody along with Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Guy Pearce, Alessandro Nivola, and Emma Laird among others.
After it premiered at the Venice Film Festival, The Brutalist was released on December 20, 2024. The film met with acclaim from critics and audiences and ended up winning three awards at the Golden Globe Awards.
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