Groundbreaking masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (27 October 2002)

This groundbreaking masterpiece reestablishes Roman Polanski's status as one of the best filmmakers in history. With its feeling for authencity and multi-dimensional characters and its shocking portrayal of the true nightmare of war and the holocaust devoid of any cheap melodramatic effects it is by far superior to "Schindler's List" and Mr. Spielberg's other attempts in the "serious" field. "The Pianist" shows evidence that sometimes European cinema is still capable of defying the calculated blockbusters of Hollywood's money machine with inspired and original filmmaking.