| The Pianist Review |
| by Bob Bloom |
| THE PIANIST (2002): Starring Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank
Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox, Ed Stoppard, Julia Rayner and
Jessica Kate Meyer. Music by Wojciech Kilar. Based on the book by
Wladyslaw Szpilman. Screenplay by Ronald Harwood....more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by David N. Butterworth (Rating: 3/4) |
| Based on celebrated pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's autobiography (and
making
more than an implicit reference to director Roman Polanski's own childhood
escape
from the Warsaw Ghetto), "The Pianist" paints a vivid portrait of how
Szpilman,
a Polish Jew...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Shannon Patrick Sullivan (Rating: 4/4) |
| Directed by Roman Polanski. Screenplay by Ronald Harwood, based on the
book by Wladyslaw Szpilman. Starring Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Thomas
Kretschmann. Running time: 148 minutes. Rated AA for controversial subject
matter by the MFCB. Reviewed on March...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Jerry Saravia (Rating: 4/4) |
| The Holocaust remains a time and place that I will never forget. It is as odious
and horrendous a time as almost any other in the 20th century. No, I am not a
Holocaust survivor (too young to be one) but my interest in the era has never
dwindled. I still...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Jonathan F. Richards (Rating: 4/5) |
| As a little boy, Roman Polanski was pushed through a hole in a barbed wire
fence by his father to escape the Kraków ghetto, and became one of the
improbable few survivors of the Holocaust. In "The Pianist", he tells the story
of another artist who...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Mark R. Leeper (Rating: 9/10) |
| CAPSULE: A violent and harrowing true account of
Warsaw under the heel of the Nazis. We see the
painful years through the eyes of Wladyslaw
Szpilman, a brilliant Jewish pianist who survived
the war as much though luck as through...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Robin Clifford (Rating: A-) |
| Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody) plays his piano, for what will be the
last time, over the radio airwaves of Warsaw as German artillery
bombards the city in the opening moments of World War Two. This begins a
tale of survival of one man, a brilliant...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Laura Clifford (Rating: A) |
| The Szpilman family rejoices to hear that Great Britain and France have joined
the war and Poland is no longer alone, but soon thereafter they've been moved to
a 'new' apartment and watch in horror as the wall which will define the Warsaw
Ghetto is...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by JoBlo (Rating: 7/10) |
| PLOT:
The year is 1939, the country is Poland, the invaders are the Nazis and the
story is true. Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman and his family, along with all
other Warsaw Jews, are persecuted by the Germans and placed inside a bricked-off
ghetto...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Jon Popick (Rating: 7/10) |
| The Pianist is the first film director Roman Polanski has made in Poland
since his very first feature (Knife in the Water). It's also, according to
the press notes, the film he's waited his entire career to make. It's too
bad he waited so long because...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 9/10) |
| Susan Granger's review of "The Pianist" (Focus Features)
Based on celebrated composer/pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's 1946 memoir,
"Death of a City," this epic Holocaust-survivor story revolves around the plight
of a talented musician who was...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Steve Rhodes (Rating: 3/4) |
| Roman Polanski's THE PIANIST is an epic length film about Wladyslaw Szpilman, a
Jewish pianist who spent most of World War II in hiding in Warsaw. Based on a
true story, the movie is essentially a one man movie. Although there are other
characters,...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz (Rating: A) |
| PIANIST, THE (director: Roman Polanski; screenwriters: Ronald Harwood/from the
autobiography by Wladyslaw Szpilman; cinematographer: Pawel Edelman; editor:
Herve de Luze; music: Wojciech Kilar; cast: Adrien Brody (Wladyslaw Szpilman),
Thomas...more |
| The Pianist Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten (Rating: 3.5/4) |
| # stars based on 4 stars: 3.5
Reviewed by: Harvey Karten
Focus Features
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Written by: Ronald Harwood, from the memoir of Wladyslaw
Szpilman
Cast: Adrien Brody, Daniel Caltagirone, Thomas Kretschmann,
Frank Finlay, Maureen...more |
