GREEDY PIG

A WW2 time saga that tugs your heart in an effortless way During the time of Germany's impending invasion of Poland during WW2, a God-fearing Jew from Warsaw brings his prodigal violinist son Dovid, in expectation of finding him an ideal tutor to get tutelage so to hone his skills. He finds the family of Martin & his father who volunteers to board, lodge and learn Violin, after knowing Dovid is a wizard, by hearing him play the instrument with ease and brilliance. Dovid grows up like an adopted son of the family and goes from strength to strength in Violin skills. During this process he loses touch with his family and gets totally distanced from his family thanks to WW2 and is unaware of his family's where & what abouts during the war. After more than a decade, Dovid suddenly vanishes one evening before debuting as a violinist, leaving the entire full house audience and his adopted family at back stage in despair! 35 years after his disappearance, a late 40s Martin played by Tim Roth, criss-crosses Europe, hoping to find his adopted brother played by Clive Owen. The movie starts slow at first, holds sway in the middle and comes to a crescendo of a climax in the end while intertwining past and present times in a clever mixture, holding you to a thrall. Tim Roth throughout and Clive Owen in the latter part bring the movie alive while transforming you to early 40s and bringing you back present day with consummate ease. At times you wont even realise that you were in early 40s in one scene and the present day five minutes later! The celebrated director Francois Girard of THE RED VIOLIN fame rarely loses the grip on narration while the same is ably supported by Tim Roth and Clive Owen with their sheer brilliant and matter of fact emoting, while bringing their characters alive and how. To top it, there are some finest compositions of Johann Sebastian BACH that stir your soul! See it if you like the genre of Period Saga. To be frank, its the combo of a Period Saga & a subtle thriller!