{"id":33917,"date":"2020-05-13T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=33917"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:26:43","slug":"the-dehumanization-of-the-pianist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/la-deshumanisation-du-pianiste\/","title":{"rendered":"The dehumanization of \u00abThe Pianist\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: Polanski's cinema<\/a> - Loris S. Musumeci<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar for Best Director for Roman Polanski, Oscar for Best Actor for Adrien Brody, seven C\u00e9sars, among many other awards. The Pianist<\/em>, adapted from the autobiographical novel by Wladyslaw Szpilman, is undoubtedly Polanski's best-known film and his greatest success. It is one of the most important films on the Holocaust. The work is indeed grandiose. It tells the story of Jewish pianist Szpilman, who escaped deportation to Nazi-occupied Warsaw.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Pianist<\/em> is extremely rich. Two and a half hours of film for two and a half hours of detail, subtlety, revulsion, pain, hope and even enchantment. Two and a half hours of emotion and reflection. The richness of the content is matched by the richness of the form. It's all there. From the silences of the dialogues to the brief, incisive statements, from the changes in color tones to their disappearance, from Chopin's music to the cries of distress in the Warsaw ghetto, from Szpilman's heroic, courageous outbursts to his petty villainy, from Nazi barbarism to their ability to be human too, to know pity too. The Pianist<\/em>, A rich, complete work. Moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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