The Brutalist is half a masterpiece. It ultimately collapses under the weight of its ideas, just as a building will crumble ...

Attila the hun, get it ... it’s yet another reminder that there is an Emmy statue with Tramell Tillman’s name on it. Andy Meek is a reporter based in Memphis who has covered media ...

He extracts himself from the bowels of a ship and emerges into delirious natural light as the woozy camera all but blinks itself awake and tilts its head back until the Statue of Liberty wavers ...

He comes out and sees the Statue of Liberty upside down ... This hopeless enslavement begins when he is taken in by his cousin, Attila (Alessandro Nivola), who runs a furniture store in ...

Alessandro Nivola’s Attila, László’s cousin ... The opening sequence, with an inverted Statue of Liberty looming like an omen, sets the tone: freedom and dislocation, grandeur and alienation ...

He has been separated from his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones), and his first glorious look at his new home is depicted via an already-iconic shot of an upside-down Statue of Liberty, as seen from ...

In the United States, the protagonist joins his cousin Attila’s furniture business (actor Alessandro ... he will see the symbolic Statue of Liberty, but it seems to be turned upside down — this crude ...

Only, the statue is framed upside-down ... There, he meets his cousin, Attila, who welcomes him with open arms. Attila immediately offers the newcomer a place to stay and a job at his furniture ...

The film follows the travails of its fictional hero, László Tóth (Adrien Brody), from his arrival at Ellis Island in 1947 (establishing shots of the Statue of Liberty ... He boards with his cousin ...

And once I sat down and saw that shot of the Statue of Liberty flipped on its head ... He immigrated to America and moved in with his cousin Attila (played by Allesandro Nivola), who runs a furniture ...