I finally got round to watching Roman Polanski’s film The Pianist on the weekend. For those who haven’t seen it yet, It’s a powerful account of the ethnic cleansing the Nazi’s carried out on the Jewish population in Warsaw, Poland during WW2. As to be expected the film documents the harrowing extermenation of the enforced jewish ghetto’s, but one man’s (talented jewish musican) determination to survive under the terryifying conditions played by Adrien Brody (who I think looks like a cartoon character by the way) rewards the viewer massively. On a lighter note Paul Bradley aka. Nigel Bates from Eastenders fame, plays an underground jewish newspaper publisher - nice work Nige.

It feels slightly uncomfortable to describe the film as brilliant, but it is - everyone should see this.

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