Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Frank Finlay, Ed Stoppard
An adaptation based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a d...( read more
)
DVD Release Date: May 27, 2003
Get It:
Stats: 12,343 reviews
Your Rating
Flixster Reviews (12,343)
-
February 5, 2010Schindler's List, the ultimate holocast drama, was told from the viewpoint of Oscar Schindler the anti-hero no-jew who becomes their saviour, whereas The Pianist is told solely and intimately from the viewpoint of a Jewish pianist in the Warsaw ghetto. Adrien Brody is shateringly...( read more)
-
December 13, 2009Easily one of 2002's best. An important and fantastic true story, in league with Schindler's List.
-
October 3, 2009Much much better than 'Schindler's List'. This is a film that shows the gritty reality of the Holocaust while maintaining a non - political, sympathetic and unschmaltzy tone.
Adrien Brody shines; a well - deserved Academy award winner, though once again I think the role would ha...( read more) -
August 30, 2009It was a good movie, but it wasn't much different from other movies made about the Holocaust. It was really slow moving and a little too long. Maybe if it had focused more on his life as a piano player, it would've stood out more to me.
-
February 26, 2009I'm sure that Roman Polanski envisioned "The Pianist" as his Opus magnum. At the back of his mind, he always wanted to make a picture about his painful childhood in Cracov ghetto, but since he was always against autobiography, calling it "pointless", he was looking for a story. A...( read more)
-
February 3, 2010A little depressing, but could not help but be moved by this film, interesting to learn about the war from different prespectives.
-
-
-
-
January 23, 2010Acting in this movie was spectacular, as was the lighting and set etc.etc. It was done in such a way that the two and a half hours didnt seem that long. However, on the entertainment side of things I wasnt exactly entertained. The story was good but I didnt get as into it as I ha...( read more)
Critic Reviews
No recent reviews.
Comments
-
-
July 9, 2008Shocking!!!
One of the scariest scenes from this gem of a film, is the "wheelchair" scene...sorry for the spoiler! :-D -
January 24, 2008The movie is really good. But everyone who have seen the movie should also read the book.
-
September 25, 2007omg this movie is such an eye opener, i felt sick watching the way the Jews were treated. Its such a great film and i feel everyone she c it. It shows just how xtreme the war was and how badly the jews were treated in these times. It is a truly great film!
-
August 16, 2007Simply perfect, magnificent. Beyond the classic movie of a bad life that ends good, is the fact that he survived thanks to his habilities, and was succesful before and after the war. A man that loved the music, an didnt want to leave the studio even during the german attack. He loved the music, and the music returned him the favor. Simply Perfect, I say again. No more words.
-
-
June 13, 2007Incredible! The most powerful file ive seen. I place The Pianist beside the Pastion of Crist
-
June 6, 2007i watched it in class, and the less gory parts were worse that any guns because of the way they had created the effect like when the germans walked into a room in one of the ghettos, expecting every1 to stand up but the man in the wheelchair couldn't and he was tipped over the side, and any1 who tried to help him was shot, they even got the lst 1 scrambing over the wall 4 his life.
i cn't believe sum ppl in my clas laughed at the man being tipped over by the germans the side falling to his death just because he was a) different
b) he cudn't follow the rule even if he wanted to.
i hated the whole fact that hitler got voted and only because he brainwashed them and gave them easy answers to their problems caused by debt after the war like blaming the communists , the jes (in general alll the ppl he was against) im not going to go into detail tho -
May 26, 2007Excellent movie showing how much the Poles and Jews suffered during WW2.
-
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
