‘Like criticising a book that has 700 pages’: The Brutalist director defends long films

Premiering at the Venice film festival on Sunday, the film – which stars Adrien Brody as the Hungarian architect László Tóth – has a running time of 215 minutes and a 15-minute intermission. Movies that go beyond the two-hour mark have increasingly been criticised in recent years as audiences and critics grow weary of sitting in cinema seats for extended periods.