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Felicity Jones cuts a chic figure in a black blazer and jeans as she addresses the audience at a screening for her new film The Brutalist Do YOU have a story? Email [email protected] By NIOMI HARRIS FOR MAILONLINE Published: 02:30 EST, 11 November 2024 | Updated: 02:30 EST, 11 November 2024 e-mail View comments Felicity Jones cut a chic figure on Sunday as she addressed the audience at a screening and Q&A for her new film, The Brutalist at London's at Picturehouse Central. The actress, 41, opted for a smart, loose-fitting black blazer which she teamed with a simple pair of blue jeans.
Felicity, who plays the part of Erzsébet Tóth in the historical drama, finished off her look with a red poppy in a mark of respect for Remembrance Day. The thespian was joined at the film event by her co-stars and director Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet and Guy Pearce. The Brutalist is a post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor attempting to rebuild a life in America.
Felicity Jones cut a chic figure on Sunday as she addressed the audience at a screening and Q&A for her new film, The Brutalist at London's at Picturehouse Central The actress, 41, opted for a smart, loose-fitting black blazer which she teamed with a simple pair of blue jeans Her appearance comes after she wowed at a gala screening of her new film during Savannah Film Festival at the start of the month. Read More Felicity Jones joins co-star Joe Alwyn at The Brutalist premiere during Venice Film Festival Felicity stunned in a strapless satin gown, which featured a matching belt and a ruffled bodice. Felicity topped off her look with a pair of strappy gold heels and accessorised with some small hooped earrings.
She was honoured with the Spotlight Award at the event which was presented to her after the screening. The Brutalist, which is directed by Brady Corbet, is a post-war epic about a Holocaust survivor attempting to rebuild a life in America. Inspired by the Jean-Louis Cohen's book Architecture in Uniform, the film stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect with Felicity playing his wife.
Spanning decades, The Brutalist tells the story of László Tóth and his attempts to pursue his art after the war in America. Adrien plays Tóth. He lives in near-poverty until a wealthy industrialist, Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), gives him an important contract.
Joe and Alessandro Nivola also star. The thespian was joined at the film event by her co-stars and director Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet and Guy Pearce [L-R] The actor said it was a character and a story he felt an 'immediate kinship and understanding for.' His mother, photographer Sylvia Plachy, was a Hungarian immigrant who fled in 1956 during the anti-Soviet revolution to restart and attempt to build a life as an artist.
Adrien said: 'Even though it's fiction, it feels very real and very real to me. That's so important for me to embody a character and make it real.' Director Brady Corbet said: 'The film is about the physical manifestation of the trauma of the 20th century.
It's dedicated to the artists that didn't get to realise their vision.' Her appearance comes after she wowed in a strapless satin gown at a gala screening of her new film during Savannah Film Festival at the start of the month Brady Corbet directed the film and wrote the script with his wife Mona Fastvold, who is also a filmmaker (pictured: Adrien and Felicity Jones in the film) Speaking at Venice Film Festival last month, he added: 'This film does everything that we are told we are not allowed to do. 'I've read great novellas, I've read great multi-volume masterpieces,' Corbet said.
'Maybe the next thing I make will be about 45 minutes, and I should be allowed to do that. ..
. As Harmony Korine once said, cinema is stuck in the birth canal. And I agree with him.
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