sorry I do not concur...

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2004)

Please forgive me- I am about to commit a travesty! What-one can criticize "The Pianist"?! One sure can. I came, I saw, I criticized. Okay, so it has Adrien Brody in it. Not a big fan. Number two, I was surprised little attention was brought to the fact that while he and his family were marched out to the ghetto, and were wailing that they had only 20 zlotny and a few suitcases-not enough to buy a potato-and what were they going to eat the rest of their lives and had no hope of supporting themselves-and have then entered there "new" digs in the ghetto-in the next view of said digs it is completely and genteely furnished as if my grandmother's pad after 50 years of collections from around the world. How did that happen? Scenes of Nazi horror will be paraded to the viewer scene after self-conscious scene-and the extras will be paraded as well as if they had been placed on a giant lazy susan. Too bad such a lovely story based on fact had been so poorly directed.