‘Stunning’ film The Brutalist gets 13-minute standing ovation as Venice Film Festival falls to its knees-Alistair McGeorge and Tori Brazier at Venice Film Festival-Entertainment – Metro

The Brutalist was given a whopping 13-minute ovation on Sunday (Picture: Focus Features)

Adrien Brody’s new movie The Brutalist received a 13-minute standing ovation this weekend at Venice Film Festival.

The new three and a half hour historical drama from Brady Corbet, which also stars Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce, has already been hailed has ‘stunning’ and ‘fascinating’ in reviews and it left viewers in awe at a screening on Sunday.

The Pianist actor Brody plays a Hungarian Holocaust survivor attempting to revive his previous career as an architect in the United States.

The actor was overwhelmed by the reaction with the audience on their feet and clapping for over 10 minutes, and he was seen wiping tears away from his eye and holding his head in his hands.

He was trying to push the adoration – which continued until security ushered people out of the screen – towards his co-stars and director, who sounded close to tears as his voice wobbled while he reflected on the project.

‘This was an incredibly difficult film to make. I’m very emotional today because I’ve been working on it for seven years and it felt urgent every day of the better part of a decade,’ he said at a press conference.

Adrien Brody was overwhelmed by the reaction (Picture: Max Montingelli/SGP/Shutterstock)

Brady Corbert insisted the film ‘does everything’ directors are told they can’t do (Picture: Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

‘And I’m just really grateful to everyone that spent three and a half hours with it last night, or will spend three and a half hours with it later today, and the cast and crew that made this film possible.

‘Because this film does everything that we are told we are not allowed to do. I think it’s quite silly, actually, to have a conversation about runtime, because that’s like criticising the book for being 700 pages versus 100 pages.’

He brushed off any potential complaints about the movie’s length noting that, like books, stories can be told in vastly different ways and formats.

Adrien was joined by his partner Georgina Chapman for the screening (Picture: Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

‘I’ve read great novellas, I’ve read great multi-volume masterpieces – and for me, it’s just about how much story there is to tell. I mean, maybe the next thing I make will be 45 minutes,’ he teased.

‘And I should be allowed to do that; everyone should be allowed to do that. The idea that we need to fit inside of a box I think it’s quite silly. We should be past that. It’s 2024.’

The story, spanning almost four decades, follows Brody as László Tóth, who immigrates to the US and starts working for a ‘rich but hot-headed man looking to build a community centre.

While he helps László and his wife reunite while working on his dream brutalist building, there is a fateful incident which changes the course of their lives.

Critics have already been praising the film, with the Telegraph hailing how it was ‘shot with the loose, rangy energy of a 90-minute indie cult hit’.

The Hollywood Reporter has described it has a ‘massive film in every sense’, while Variety highlighted how the piece was ‘stunningly shot’.

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