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Grand gagnant de la course aux récompenses de l’année 2003, Le Pianiste de Roman Polanski méritait amplement sa palme d’or, ses trois oscars et ses sept césars. Adapté de l’autobiographie de Wladyslaw Szpilman, ce film empreint d’une grande dignité raconte la lutte pour sa survie d’un pianiste juif, en Pologne, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Polanski, lui-même juif, a attendu des années avant d’aborder ce sujet douloureux. Avec un classicisme tout en retenue, loin de la dramatisation excessive, le cinéaste au passé sulfureux tente ici d’exorciser des démons qui hantent le monde et sa vie depuis plus d’un demi-siècle. De la construction du ghetto de Varsovie à la libération de la ville par les Russes, Polanski nous fait vivre, de l’intérieur, l’incompréhension puis la terreur absolue de ce peuple persécuté.
Porté par l’interprétation subtile et émouvante d’Adrien Brody, en accord parfait avec la sobriété de la mise en scène et du propos, Le Pianiste offre des scènes finales bouleversantes, porteuses d’espoir. Un film qui, au-delà de l’horreur, a le mérite de laisser croire que l’humanité peut renaître de ses cendres. --Helen Faradji
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Shockingly Poor Quality,
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This review is from: The Pianist [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
The movie "The Pianist" is a moving and beautiful piece that truly deserves better treatment than this unfortunate 'cash grab' by TVA Films. The video maxes out at 1080i (yes, you read that correctly - not (P)rogressive) and the sound is (shudder) only Dolby Digital - not DolbyTrueHD or DTS Master HD. Fans of this movie will need to track down the older HD-DVD copy (if you still have an HD-DVD player that is) to view this movie in true HD video and sound quality. The packaging also seems sub-par with no actual Blue-Ray logo on the plastic (like every other BD disc out there) and the "1080p" gold logo is used on the back (and that is simply inaccurate). The disc, quite frankly, seems more like a bootleg than an actual new release BD. Upconvert your DVD copy of "The Pianist" and save your money. Truly unforgiveable, TVA Films. This film gets 2 stars not for the actual disc itself, but simply due to the high quality of the story and film making effort.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
For shame,
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This review is from: The Pianist (Widescreen) (DVD)
Even though barely deserving a rebuttal, some of the reviews here are so beyond asinine that I cannot restrain myself, particularly with regard to those reviewers who had the gall to call Mr. Szpilman a coward. Mr. Szpilman risked immediate death every time he helped to smuggle a weapon or ammunition into the ghetto. The ghetto uprising itself was essentially a suicide mission, and everyone involved probably knew that. So Mr. Szpilman was a coward because he wanted to live, then? How dare you. While I don't believe that any work of art should be above criticism no matter what its subject matter, I have not read a single negative review here that has any remotely intelligent criticism of this film whatsoever. They pretty much describe it as "boring" or "another Holocaust movie." Schmucks. One reviewer couldn't even remember the protagonist's name, yet had no shortage of would-be scathing things to say about the movie. Almost as absurd are the unfavorable comparisons to "Schindler's List." Yes, Oskar Schindler was a great man, but the very straightforward good vs. evil nature of the subject matter must have appealed to Steven Spielberg's very American sensibilities. "The Pianist," on the other hand, boldly treads a ground that is decidedly messier, morally less clear-cut, and I think that only a man like Roman Polanski, who understands the particular time and place where these events transpired, could have made this film. And Adrien Brody fully deserved the Academy Award for this performance. And, yes, he does spend a good deal of time searching like a "rat" for food. What do these buffoons think it means to survive in such an environment? Idiots. Anyhow, this film is a masterpiece, an artistic triumph of the highest rank. The naysayers have not been able to level a single legitimate criticism against it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Film,
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This review is from: The Pianist (Widescreen) (DVD)
At first I did not want to see this movie, mainly because of the cliche that there are no real good holocaust movies. "Sophie's Choice" was a snooze and too long, "Life is Beautiful" got me rooting for the Nazi's to put old Roberto out of his misery & "Shindler's List" was an abysmal piece of dreck. But with that in mind- this is, after all Roman Polanski- a good if not great director who knows how to tell a story and well. Is this as good as his earlier masterpieces "Repulsion" & "Chinatown"? Well, yes and no. This film works because it is not drenched in sentiment & the characters are real people & not cliches. It also works by focusing on one man's struggle & that fact that he had a love for music- which helped to keep his mind intact (& therby make him more unique). Therefore you begin to care about the characters- & the film moves as in a point by point basis. There are no forced emotions- everything is as is and Polanski leaves it up to the audience to feel the way they want. Also- this film does not label the characters as all "good" or all "bad". There are good Jews and bad Jews. Good Poles and bad Poles. Good Germans and bad Germans, unlike Oscar Schindler who is either ALL bad & then changes to become ALL good. Let us remind ourselves that Hitler and these Nazi's were people just like you and me- who laughed and cried and felt, which is what makes them all the more SCARIER- that they too could be ANY one of us. Kinda freaky if you really think about it. So kick back and give 2 1/2 hrs of your time to learn and enjoy & probably feel depressed at the end.
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