The Pianist
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Movie Reviews of The Pianist
Movie Review: A Time When a Nightmare Enveloped Europe.
Summary: 5 Stars
As many other people I was avoiding seeing this movie. I thought nothing really new about The Holocaust may be filmed after seeing "Schideler's List" (1993), "Kap?" (1959) or "La Vita ? Bella" (Life is Beautiful 1997) amongst others. I was mistaken.
Roman Polanski has created an emotive and deep film. With poignancy that only a survivor as himself could give.
The screenplay is based on the autobiographic book of Wladyslaw Szpilman a well known pianist and Warsaw's Ghetto survivor.
Szpilman was an artist dedicated to playing and composing music when war came to disrupt his life and that of millions more people.
His burden was double: he was a defeated Pole and Jew.
The film shows how step by step a nightmare is constructed around the Jewish Community. First they were limited on what amount of money they were able to keep at home; then they were banned from restaurants; next they were banned from public squares and so on until they are massively relocated into the infamous Ghetto.
Vexations increases: starvation, murder, deportation to the camps.
All this is shown from the interior of Szpilman's family. How they are affected, how their relationships are stirred. Every scene rings true and touches the raw nerve of the spectator.
Adrien Brody fleshes his character with sensibility and accuracy: an outstanding performance.
Polanski is at par with his best productions and won 2003 Best Director's Oscar.
Even if this is a sad film, I highly recommend it in order to have an inside glance to this terrible historical period.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
Movie Review: CAPTURES WHAT OTHERS HAVE MISSED
Summary: 5 Stars
THOUGHT I'D SEEN MY SHARE OF WW2 MOVIES AND THOUGHT TOO, I WOULDN'T BE AS MOVED AS I WAS WHEN FINALLY VIEWING IT NOW IN 2007 . WELL, THAT WAS ALMOST MY LOSS. I FOUND TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY FACE . IT WAS TOO REAL . I DON'T THINK I CAN WATCH IT AGAIN BUT, I SHALL NEVER FOREGET THIS MOVIE AND WHEN MOVIES ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR OCCUPATION COME UP I SHALL VOICE LOUDLY MY RECOMMENDATION TO SEE THIS AT LEAST ONCE .
IT SHOWS THE BEST OF MAN AND THE WORSE OF MAN WHEN LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES . WE ARE " MASTERS OF OUR FATE, WE ARE THE CAPTAINS OF OUR SOULS" ( william earnest henley ) . WE SHOULD ALL THINK AND CHOOSE WISELY BEFORE HARMING OTHERS . BRODY WAS EXCELLENT IN THE STARRING ROLE . BEST CHOICE.
Movie Review: The Pianist
Summary: 5 Stars
I asked to receive the DVD via regular mail and I received it in 3 days!
The Pianist is a great movie about survival you can feel what the character in the movie feels.
Movie Review: Surviving destruction and genocide
Summary: 5 Stars
The Pianist is the true story of the struggle to survive the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto of Polish Jewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman.
It tells how he survived against the odds , hiding in various parts of the city , before his life was saved by a German officer , who despised the Nazis brutality and genocide , a true righteous gentile , Captain Wilm Hosenfeld.
Unlike many personal holocaust accounts , which are of concentration and death camps , this one is an account of life and death in the Warsaw ghetto.
The movie portrays life and death in the ghetto : the disease , the starvation and the Nazi mass murders of hundreds of thousands of men , women and children. The imagery of the ghetto is brough to life, with heartrending scenes of the Jews being herded into and out of the ghetto and of Nazi brutality. REcreated scenes, will stay with the viewer, like a young woman being shot in the head for asking the Nazi guard where the Nazis are taking them, a mother holding a small boy who is dying of thirst, and begging for water for her child.
A little girl, holding an empty bird cage, and crying because she cannot find her family.
Roman Polanski has showed his flare for directing once again, and brilliant acting by Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman, Emilia Fox as his gentile female friend Dorota, and Thomas Kretschmann as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld.
A story of one man's quest for survival, among the cruel genocide of millions.
Movie Review: art among the ruins
Summary: 4 Stars
Directed by Roman Polanski, this film recounts the true life story of the Polish Jew and classical pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, and how through sheer luck and gritty determination he survived the Holocaust.