'Fugitive Pieces'
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Although the Holocaust is the beginning, end and animating force for "Fugitive Pieces," this low-key film doesn't wallow in the horrors.
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A life of fractured memories
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Anne Michael's 1997 "Fugitive Pieces" tells the story of Jakob as both a child who survives the murder of his family by Nazis in Poland but also as a writer wrestling with the ghosts of that lost family.
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"Fugitive Pieces": a thoughtful, emotional — and haunting — ghost story
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
"To live with ghosts requires solitude," says Jakob Beer (Stephen Dillane), a writer and scholar haunted by his past. Jeremy Podeswa's thoughtful drama...
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"Fugitive Pieces:" Touching Holocaust story is unique
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Jeremy Podeswa's "Fugitive Pieces" is a touching drama about a Holocaust victim struggling with memories of his lost family.
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Fugitive Pieces : Out of the Holocaust, and into the fugue of memory
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
In this English-language Canadian drama, based on the award-winning novel by poet Anne Michaels, Jakob, a young Polish Jew, watches the Nazis slaughter his family while he hides in a cupboard. He's rescued by Athos (Rade Serbedzija), a Greek archaeologist, who smuggles the boy back to Greece and,...
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TIFF Picks Opening Night Film: 'Passchendaele'
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Filed under: Drama , Exhibition , Toronto International Film Festival , War Last year, the Toronto International Film Festival opened with Jeremy Podeswa's World War II film Fugitive Pieces -- an opener that elicited descriptors from "smart choice" to "leaden and pretentious." This year, we're going to get more war, but this time around, it'll be a few years earlier for WWI and it comes from a surprising...
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Movie review: 'Fugitive' - hope after Holocaust
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Fugitive Pieces: Drama. Starring Stephen Dillane, Ayelet Zurer, Rosamund Pike, Rade Sherbedgia and Robbie Kaye. Directed by Jeremy Podeswa. In Greek and Hebrew with English subtitles and in English. (R. 105 minutes. At the Kabuki.) "...
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Lines from Fugitive Pieces
Isak (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The dead passed above me, weird halos and arcs smothering stars. The trees bent under their weight. Sometimes the body experiences a revelation because it has abandoned every other possibility. (On Athos' desk, the night he died) ... A cup...
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Fugitive Pieces
Reverse Shot - (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
...the flashbacks aren't organized in a manner that develops a thesis about Jakob’s progress or creates any sort of meaning. What matters is that they are there, that there’s a past strangling the present as in all good Canadian narratives, that our hero suffers, and that he’s on a path to acceptance presented in simplistic and condescending terms. read more
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Critics stony towards Angel
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The recent parade of big-budget CanLit film adaptations that began with Emotional Arithmetic and Fugitive Pieces continues this week with the release of The Stone Angel, starring American actress Ellen Burstyn. Not surprisingly, critics are greeting it with the same level of enthusiasm they showed the others. The Toronto Star’s Philip Marchand (who just can't seem [...]
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'Fugitive Pieces,' 3.5 stars
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Slow moving Canadian film that chronicles the life of a young Polish boy whose parents are killed by Nazis, is rescued to Greece, and moves to Canada to write books about his experience. Beautifully acted, deeply emotional but with an unconvincing ending. (R - 104 minutes) S.
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Fugitive Pieces
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Nostalgic, deeply felt, and refreshingly astute, Fugitive Pieces is something of a rare bird these days—a big-budget, transnational historical drama that actually justifies its scope and subject matter with more than visual opulence. On the surface, it looks like...
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Fugitive Pieces.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
"Image, like identity, is always coming into focus throughout Fugitive Pieces," writes Ed Gonzalez in Slant. "Conventionally shot but artfully cut, Jeremy Podeswa's film, based on a novel by Anne Michaels, toggles back and forth in time, honing in...
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'Fugitive Pieces': Survivor of war, burdened by memory
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Survivor guilt and other restless spirits trouble Fugitive Pieces , Jeremy Podeswa's well acted but dramatically unyielding screen adaptation of poet/author Anne Michaels' award-winning 1997 novel.
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Movie Review | 'Fugitive Pieces': Dark Memories Abound
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
For a tale spiked with so much torment, “Fugitive Pieces” feels remarkably soothing.
