Roman Polanski is back at the top of its form !

Rating: 8/10 (5 December 2002)

Roman Polanski has had his highs and lows these last twenty years but, because the subject of the Pianist is so close to its Polish Jewish origins, he does a great job at chronicling the survival experience of a talented jewish pianist from Warsaw during the 1939-45 years. The only flaws would be a very formalist style (we closely follow the characters but rarely interconnect with most of them except for Brody) and some points will draw eye browns (how could he survive that long, etc... but after all it's a true story). Anyway, go see that movie, probably the most powerful about the Holocaust since Schindler's List.