The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Pacing, velocity, and flow dont interest Lowery. He knows the effects he wants and, skilled as he is, knows how to get them. But are they worth getting?
The splendid effectiveness of The Pianist lies fully in the precise work of adaptation that the Weitz brothers make of the original text.
Very funny and smart, its shot like a comedy and suffers like most comedies do because of it.