I love brutalist architecture, so was eager to see this. Initially, I was a little bit disappointed that it's not a documentary about Broos' architecture - sure, many examples feature and are filmed beautifully, and his design philosophy discussed (nature is the heart of anything he designed, which is surprising to some people who find brutalism too stark) - but the film is really a wonderful biography, about Broos' life, covering what it was like for him to be conscripted into Hitler army, survining that (barely), the effect of being transplanted in Brasil, his career and many excellent colleagues and co-creators ... and especially so, the effect of his memory giving way, and how Broos as an architect accepted this but also found ways to remember. Very moving central performance from Imre Boráros, playing the elder Broos: you might as well be in the company of the man himself.
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