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-- Tomorrow at dawn2010,p2009., Adult, Distributed by Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic Tomorrow Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play becomes real.
![Demain dès l'aube [DVD] (2009). Directed by Denis Dercourt. : Tomorrow at dawn](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Demain dès l'aube [DVD] (2009). Directed by Denis Dercourt. : Tomorrow at dawn")
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2012., Olive Films Call No: DVD Fic Letter Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.
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2007., Fox Searchlight Pictures : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Once Edition: Widescreen (1.85:1). Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A nameless busker, singing his heart out on the streets of Dublin meets a nameless young woman who speaks English with an accent, a street vendor. His girlfriend has left him, so he works in his father's vacuum repair shop and writes songs for her. She cleans houses, and plays the demo piano in a shop at lunchtime. The singer comes to hear her, and is so impressed that he immediately asks if she wants to collaborate -- right then -- on one of his tunes. They slowly piece the song together, and magic begins. This is a love story about a creative partnership, and the deeper longing for communication that underlies any worthwhile artistic effort.
![Once [DVD] (2007). Directed by John Carney.](/Library/images/~imageCT84344.JPG "Once [DVD] (2007). Directed by John Carney.")
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2003., Adult, TVA Films Call No: DVD Fic Pianist Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roman Polanski's THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody), a Polish Jew, who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Poland, and brings it to life clearly and believably. Szpilman is a tall, handsome, winsome man who is revered for his piano performances on public radio. He lives with his family--an intelligent, loving, and spirited bunch--in an upscale flat in central Warsaw. Bombings have begun to torment the citizens of Warsaw, and step by step, the Nazis infiltrate, the Jews are branded and set apart from their neighbors, imprisoned in a ghetto, and slowly exterminated. The story is told through Szpilman's eyes, and thus carries as much confusion and fear as disgust and torment. Polanski paints Warsaw in bleak shades of gray and black, expressing the helplessness of the Jewish people and the cruelty of the Nazis with captivating photography. In the second half of the film, which takes place in the early 1940s, Szpilman is alone, having managed to avoid the trains to the death camps. His struggle to survive, with some help from non-Jews but mostly his own will to thrive, takes place in long, silent, languid stretches filled with the imagined piano music that inspires Szpilman to live. In a climactic scene of immense beauty and spine-tingling tension, Szpilman must actually perform for a German soldier who is inexplicably patrolling the near-deserted and utterly dilapidated Warsaw ghetto. THE PIANIST, in the subtlety of its sublime and heartbreaking tale, is carried by the intensely moving performance of Brody, whose transformation is truly unforgettable.
![The pianist [DVD] (2002). Directed by Roman Polanski](/Library/images/~imageCT83186.JPG "The pianist [DVD] (2002). Directed by Roman Polanski")
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[1997]., General, New Line Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Shine Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
![Shine [DVD] (1997). Directed by Scott Hicks.](/Library/images/~imageCT82970.JPG "Shine [DVD] (1997). Directed by Scott Hicks.")