Good instincts from Csaba Mecseki, mixed result

Csaba Mecseki was the thing I kept watching in The Brutalist (2024). I bought the character pretty quickly, which is not always easy in this kind of film. It is the kind of performance that quietly makes the movie sturdier. A couple of tiny timing choices really stuck with me. There is a nice lived-in quality to it, nothing too forced. The small reactions do a lot of the heavy lifting. Not the whole movie, obviously, but it helps a lot.