The Pianist is based on the memoirs of Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, and it’s Roman Polanski’s strongest and most personally felt movie. This should not ...

The Pianist: Drama. Starring Adrien Brody. Directed by Roman Polanski. (VHS and DVD. R. 148 minutes.) People have a tendency to adapt, make do and look on the bright side. One of the many terrible ...

THE PIANIST: Drama. Starring Adrien Brody. Directed by Roman Polanski. (R. 148 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) People have a tendency to adapt, make do and look on the bright side. One of the many ...

The Pianist is a raw, unblinking film. It teaches that in dire circumstances our only obligation is to our own survival; all else–culture, ideology, even love–is a dispensable luxury.