The Pianist
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Katarzyna Figura, Maureen Lipman, Thomas Kretschmann Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman Composer: Wojciech Kilar DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 150 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-05-27 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Universal Studios |
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Movie Reviews of The Pianist
Movie Review: The Watcher
Summary: 5 Stars
Somber, serious, with only a hint of his trademark wit and sarcasm ("Why are you wearing that Nazi Coat?"..."I'm Cold," replies Szpilman (Adrien Brody) Roman Polanski presents a film of the Holocaust from the point of view of those in Poland; specifically The Warsaw Ghetto."The Pianist" is a true story based on the experiences of the pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman but unlike say Otto Schindler, Szpilman is a watcher rather than a participant in the action of his own story. He's an Artist not a Fighter, you might say. Actually he's a very lucky person in many ways, for because of his celebrity as a radio pianist he has many friends who help him escape the concentration camps and thereby survive the war.
There is an over-riding sense of truth to the way Polanski handles this material as there are very few big dramatic, handkerchief at the ready scenes and more business-as-usual scenes of the atrocities of the Nazi's. Polanski is smart enough to realize that we've seen it all before and seeing it through the eyes of Szpilman: the public executions, the beatings, the starvation, the vermin, the degradations become so commonplace that it takes us a second to realize how very horrible it all is: he's saying there was so much of it that we all got used to it...it became commonplace, a natural occurrence and consequently more horrendous in the viewing and in the contemplation afterwards.
Adrien Brody plays Szpilman very quietly; very passively...he is more acted upon that acting. As the movie unfolds he loses more and more weight, grows a beard and his eyes get bigger and bigger and more vacant: since he spends most of the film alone in hiding much of his role is really silent film acting; done with the eyes and body language: truly a masterful performance.
Polanski's "The Pianist" is Polanski at the top of his form very much unlike "Chinatown" for example but just as resonant with feeling, superior move-making and respect for his audience's intelligence.