Polanski is the Mozart of film makers

Rating: Null/10 (15 February 2003)

Efficient and economical telling of yet another first hand holocaust experience. Unlike Schindler's List, however, The Pianist contains no distracting sentimentality. I would have like to see more scenes involving the father, played by Frank Finlay. He's such a wonderful British actor who played such a great Iago to Lawrence Olivier's Othello.
Trivia: Steven Speilberg had originally offered to let Polanski direct Schindler's List.