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NUMBERS
Box Office: $32,519,322
VHS Rentals: $2,660,000
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CONSENSUS
Well-acted and dramatically moving, The Pianist is Polanski's best work in years.
CAST & CREW
Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Thomas Kretschmann
Directed by Roman Polanski
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SYNOPSIS
Roman Polanski's THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody), a Polish Jew, who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Poland, and brings it to life clearly and believably. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence and brief strong language
RUNTIME
2 hours, 30 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Dec 27, 2002
Video: May 27, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Focus
GENRE
Dramas, Drama, World War II, Nazis, Music, Holocaust, Pianists/Pianos, Jewish
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Pianist Site
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 "It is hard not to be especially grateful for freedom after a film like this."
-- Wendy Weinstein, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Starts slowly, but Adrien Brody – in the title role – helps make the film’s conclusion powerful and satisfying."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Here Polanski looks back on those places he saw at childhood, and captures them by freeing them from artefact, and by showing them heartbreakingly drably."
-- Ian Waldron-Mantgani, UK CRITIC
"The film serves as a valuable time capsule to remind us of the devastating horror suffered by an entire people."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"Tells a fascinating, compelling story."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"A strong script, powerful direction and splendid production design allows us to be transported into the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, who is not only a pianist, but a good human being."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"This really is one man's story: We feel the cold and deprivation he feels, see the misery and cruelty he sees, and that's what makes the experience memorable."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Roman Polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'Shindler's List' - it is more than merely a Holocaust movie."
-- Jeet Thayil, REDIFF.COM
"Polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own World War II experience in his signature style."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"The Pianist is Polanski's best film."
-- Gerry Shamray, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Another Best of the Year selection."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"A wonderful, ghastly film."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"At almost two and a half hours, Ronald Harwood's screenplay occasionally drags. At the same time, Brody's straightforward portrayal of Szpilman and Polanski's unblinking eye make for a number of gripping, undeniably powerful sequences..."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
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"Sem se preocupar em criar momentos melodramáticos para arrancar lágrimas do espectador, O Pianista é um filme triste sem que, para isso, precise ser emocionante."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"One of the best films of the year, and one for the ages."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"A subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience; The Pianist does not."
-- Joshua Tyler, FILM HOBBIT
"The Pianist is a fine valedictory work for Polanski, made richer by his own experiences, making his other movies somehow richer in the bargain."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Refined and reserved but still haunting...one of the finer non-documentary films yet made about the deepest stain on twentieth-century history."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"A different and emotionally reserved type of survival story -- a film less about refracting all of World War II through the specific conditions of one man, and more about that man lost in its midst."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"There is no denying the power of Polanski's film..."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Any movie that can make you sit bolt upright in your seat at the extinguishing of a make-believe life has proved itself an adept advocate for real ones."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"The Pianist [is] a supremely hopeful cautionary tale of war's madness remembered that we, today, can prevent its tragic waste of life. Here is a divine monument to a single man's struggle to regain his life, his dignity and his music."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
 "Roman Polanski directs The Pianist like a surgeon mends a broken heart; very meticulously but without any passion."
-- Alex Sandell, JUICY CEREBELLUM
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FRESH 94%
Avg. Rating: 8.7/10 |
"The Pianist lacks the quick emotional connections of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. But Mr. Polanski creates images even more haunting than those in Mr. Spielberg's 1993 classic."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"The Pianist is the film Roman Polanski may have been born to make."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A portrait of hell so shattering it's impossible to shake."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"In The Pianist, Polanski is saying what he has long wanted to say, confronting the roots of his own preoccupations and obsessions, and he allows nothing to get in the way."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"One of the very few nondocumentary movies about Jewish life and death under the Nazis that can be called definitive."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"A movie of riveting power and sadness."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"We admire this film for its harsh objectivity and refusal to seek our tears, our sympathies."
-- Richard Schickel, TIME MAGAZINE
"Mr. Polanski is in his element here: alone, abandoned, but still consoled by his art, which is more than he has ever revealed before about the source of his spiritual survival."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"This is one of Polanski's best films."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"It is a chilling account, as barren of emotions as a Samuel Beckett play, and yet it is indescribably moving."
-- Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"It gives devastating testimony to both people's capacity for evil and their heroic capacity for good."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
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