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Philadelphia Film Festival: Train Dreams’ Joel Edgerton Anchors a Soulful Portrait of a Life Shaped by Fate

©Courtesy of Netflix The most masterful study of a man’s seemingly simplistic life tries to make sense of the underlying tragic and fateful circumstances he has long faced. Instead of placing blame for his difficult situations on others, he accepts his life’s mystery with a hard-earned grace. Joel Edgerton’s protagonist of Robert Grainier in the…

NYFF: The Brutalist as Dark Side of the “American Dream”

@Courtesy of A24 Fresh winner of the Silver Lion for Best Directing at the Venice Film Festival, The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet follows the story of the Hungarian architect László Tóth, who emigrated to the United States after surviving the Holocaust. After a brief and complicated stay with his cousin, the man starts facing…