Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor British cinematographer Lol Crawley spoke about his experience of shooting Brady Corbet’s Oscar-nominated epic “The Brutalist” at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he was awarded the Robby Müller Award.
The DP praised Corbet, a longtime collaborator, speaking of him as a “pragmatic” director who is “across budget in every possible way.” “If somebody tells him we can’t afford [something] and he knows he wants it, he finds where he can take the money from to make it work,” Crawley continued, going on to recall an episode in “The Brutalist” where the building chosen to serve as the house of the Van Buren family didn’t feature a bedroom, despite several scenes in the script mentioning one. “There’s a scenario where you can work with another director and spend weeks looking for this unattainable location because you can be quite precious about your desires and designs for the film,” said the cinematographer. “Brady was like, ‘Well, I don’t need a bedroom.’ As long as the intent and the theme of the scene remain intact, he’ll cut his cloth and find a way through it. ‘The Brutalist’ was 33 days for $10 million.
That is one of the ways you achieve that, by being smart and sensible.” Corbet’s long-gestating three-hour epic about visionary Jewish architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody), who escapes postwar Europe to try to rebuild his life in America, landed 10 nominations at this year’s Oscars, including best picture and best cinematography for Crawley.
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