Stellar.

Rating: 10/10 (31 March 2016)

As a Polish descendant I take pride in most movies regarding our storied heritage, yet most films lack a correct historical context and often times are so off of the intended story line that the film is ruined, Polanski is brilliant with this film in its ability to evoke emotion from any viewer, although morbid the film is an accurate and sad reality of millions of people and is one of few films that can depict the holocaust in a somewhat realistic manner. Adrien Brody is stellar in his Academy Award winning performance playing a passive Polish Jew who survives and avoids Nazi rule. Polanski himself uses his past and applies it to the film as he himself was a survivor of the war and of course of his dark and sad past of the murder of his wife Sharon Tate, you can see his emotion through his films and although perhaps morbid this film is brilliant and any avid movie goer would love and appreciate The Pianist. A Polanski classic.