Greeted by the symbol of hope and the American Dream, the Statue of Liberty, architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody, The Piano) arrives in the USA after surviving the Holocaust. Devastatingly separated from his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything), László has only his specialised skillset to tide him by, and his cousin Atilla (Alessandro Nivola, The Many Saints of Newark) to remind him of home.
Joining his cousin’s furniture business, Miller & Sons, the trajectory of his life is changed forever upon a grand commission: to renovate the library of the formidable tycoon Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce, Memento), under the instruction of his spoiled son Harry Lee (Joe Alwyn, Kinds of Kindness).
A monumental achievement in film, the likes of which is seldom seen in modern cinema, this epic story of the immigrant experience in 20th century America is a staggering, perfectly composed masterpiece from director Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader) and co-writer Mona Fastvold (The World to Come), and an utterly unmissable cinematic engagement, recalling Citizen Kane and old Hollywood epics of its esteemed calibre.