Dreaming big

Taking its title from a post-war architecture movement that made extensive use of concrete, director and co-writer Brady Corbet's dramatic distortion of the American Dream is a monumental technical achievement.

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Hours of painstaking design, ingenuity and effort have been lavished on The Brutalist, recreating 1940s' Philadelphia on location in Hungary with a relatively modest $10million (£8.2million) budget to trace the turbulent fortunes of Hungarian-Jewish architect Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody) as he flees Nazi extermination.

The bravura work of cinematographer Lol Crawley honours the lines and geometry of the architecture, capturing scenes from disorienting angles like an off-kilter Statue of Liberty welcoming Laszlo and fellow refugees to New York.