Sunday, 14 December 2003

The Pianist ::

V and I rented The Pianist Friday night. It was interesting to have seen this soon after Life Is Beautiful; they’re both stories of survival amidst the most horrible conditions. It was stunning, I kept thinking, this is horrible, this really happened, things can’t get worse, but they did, again and again. Yet I knew he would play again in the end; the question was, how? Adrien Brody’s actually playing (at least some if not all of) the music was special; I’m really sensitive to music not matching what an actor’s hands are doing and it was clear that we were hearing and seeing real performances, even if perhaps some digital assembly was required.