The Pianist (2002)
Country: FR/GER/POL/GB
Technical: col 149m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thoman Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox
Synopsis:
A Jew in German occupied Warsaw survives the ghetto, deportation and the uprising thanks to a combination of luck, kindness and his prowess as a musician.
Review:
A true story and all the more powerful for that (we probably would not believe much of it otherwise), moving for its incidences of generosity of spirit alongside so much callous inhumanity, and vivid in its depiction of the ghetto and the deprivation undergone there. For many its close-up, colour approach made it more powerful than Spielberg's self-consciously documentary one; though as a piece of cinema it is a blunter instrument and less ambitious in scope, it undoubtedly represents an exorcism of sorts for its director.
Country: FR/GER/POL/GB
Technical: col 149m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thoman Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox
Synopsis:
A Jew in German occupied Warsaw survives the ghetto, deportation and the uprising thanks to a combination of luck, kindness and his prowess as a musician.
Review:
A true story and all the more powerful for that (we probably would not believe much of it otherwise), moving for its incidences of generosity of spirit alongside so much callous inhumanity, and vivid in its depiction of the ghetto and the deprivation undergone there. For many its close-up, colour approach made it more powerful than Spielberg's self-consciously documentary one; though as a piece of cinema it is a blunter instrument and less ambitious in scope, it undoubtedly represents an exorcism of sorts for its director.
Country: FR/GER/POL/GB
Technical: col 149m
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Adrien Brody, Thoman Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox
Synopsis:
A Jew in German occupied Warsaw survives the ghetto, deportation and the uprising thanks to a combination of luck, kindness and his prowess as a musician.
Review:
A true story and all the more powerful for that (we probably would not believe much of it otherwise), moving for its incidences of generosity of spirit alongside so much callous inhumanity, and vivid in its depiction of the ghetto and the deprivation undergone there. For many its close-up, colour approach made it more powerful than Spielberg's self-consciously documentary one; though as a piece of cinema it is a blunter instrument and less ambitious in scope, it undoubtedly represents an exorcism of sorts for its director.