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I’m an art historian who researches the Holocaust — here’s why I hated ‘The Brutalist’

JL;DR SUMMARY Laura Morowitz, an art historian specializing in Nazi-ruled Vienna, shares her disappointment with the film "The Brutalist," directed by Brady Corbet and starring Adrien Brody. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustBauhausNazi EraViennaHolocaust RepresentationFilm CriticismArt HistoryArchitectureAdrien BrodyBrutalism

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Vienna, Austria
"Im an art historian who focuses on turn-of-the-century and Nazi-ruled Vienna, and the research associate of a small Holocaust Center, so I was about as excited for the opening of Brady Corbets The Brutalist as I have been for any film."
United States
"an exploration of a Bauhaus-trained architects best works, and a look at the cultural and social tensions of post-war America."
Bavaria, Germany
"In the last few minutes of the film we learn that the community center was designed to evoke or reference the two concentration camps, Dachau and Buchenwald, which Lszl and Erzsbet survived."
Thuringia, Germany
"In the last few minutes of the film we learn that the community center was designed to evoke or reference the two concentration camps, Dachau and Buchenwald, which Lszl and Erzsbet survived."
Hungary
"(The Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Marcel Breuer is the figure most often cited as a parallel to Lszl)."

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