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Revisiting THE PIANIST

Revisiting THE PIANIST

In the wake of THE ZONE OF INTEREST

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Feb 26, 2024
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“With our sincere gaze we survey these ruins, as if the old monster lay crushed forever beneath the rubble. We pretend to take up hope again as the image recedes into the past, as if we were cured once and for all of the scourge of the camps.” — Alain Resnais, Night and Fog, 1956

The Pianist, The Zone of Interest

A tool like cinema, our closest approximation to recreating humanity in all…

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