Format: NTSC

Release Date: 04-28-2009

Details: Amazon.ca Grand winner of the race for awards of the year 2003, Roman Polanski's The Pianist fully deserved his Palme d'Or, his three Oscars and his seven Caesars. Adapted from Wladyslaw Szpilman's autobiography, this dignified film recounts the struggle for survival of a Jewish pianist in Poland during World War II. Polanski, himself a Jew, waited years before broaching this painful subject. With a restrained classicism, far from excessive dramatization, the filmmaker with a sulphurous past tries here to exorcise the demons that have haunted the world and his life for more than half a century. From the construction of the Warsaw ghetto to the liberation of the city by the Russians, Polanski makes us experience, from the inside, the incomprehension and then the absolute terror of this persecuted people. Carried by the subtle and moving interpretation of Adrien Brody, in perfect harmony with the sobriety of the staging and the subject, The Pianist offers moving final scenes, bearers of hope. A film which, beyond the horror, has the merit of suggesting that humanity can be reborn from its ashes. --Helen Faradji

UPC: 824255004718

EAN: 0824255004718

Languages: English

Binding: Blu-ray

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood