Author: Adrien Brody

Format: Dolby

Release Date: 01-01-1990

Details: Difficult to emerge unscathed from The Pianist by Roman Polanski. The emblematic destiny of the virtuoso Wladyslaw Szpilman inevitably upsets, but it is not only that. The pure classicism of the images and their raw realism absorb you, engulf you, making words powerless. Then silence falls, and Chopin's "Nocturne" which seemed to have been stolen from us throughout the film, comes back to haunt us long after the last second of the end credits. Little by little, everything falls back into place: the archive images of a very much alive Warsaw, like the resurgence of black and white memories of the filmmaker of Polish origin, and then the vision of a walled city, at the agony, and that of a people pushed aside, eradicated. Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, masterfully embodied by Adrien Brody, is above all a powerless witness to the unspeakable, almost indifferent to horror. Yet it is him that Polanski's camera has chosen. Probably because music has no place in a ghetto. Neither does humanity. Both appear all the more omnipresent in the story as they are literally erased from history. It is perhaps in this paradox that lies all the terrible magic of this major symphony. The Palme d'or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, the César for best film, the Oscar for best director and the prizes awarded to Adrien Brody are all the more anecdotal. --Arnaud Cairo

UPC: 824255001083

EAN: 0824255001083

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood