Once you adjust to the film's deliberate pace and literary rhythms, there are innumerable visual and emotional pleasures to be had.
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05/02/08
Fugitive Pieces (2008)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:45
Rotten:23
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Though the retelling is a bit too subtle, the moving story and solid performances lift Fugitive Pieces beyond standard holocaust tales.
Theatrical Release:May 2, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $449,048
Synopsis: Adapted from Anne Michael's acclaimed prose-poem novel, FUGITIVE PIECES is a harrowing and haunting tale of Holocaust survival and personal awakening. The film opens in Poland, as young Jakob Berr... [More]
Starring: Stephen Dillane, Rade Sherbedgia, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
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Reviews for Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michael's complex, poetic novel is here adapted into a stolid, somewhat po-faced film, but one that still manages to tease some affecting drama out of its scholarly premise.
05/29/09
Fugitive Pieces reduces the Holocaust and its aftermath to a cosy soap opera.
05/29/09
An intermittently powerful, if not entirely successful, piece.
05/29/09
Sensitively adapted from the achingly sad, luminous novel by Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces is a story of unspeakable loss and how it eats at the souls of survivors.
05/09/08
...a drama about good people struggling to make the right choices in life.
05/09/08
Image, like identity, is always coming into focus throughout Fugitive Pieces.
04/28/08
Though a tad pretentious and structurally problematic, Podeswa's tale of a Holocaust survivor is ambitious and occasionally lyrical and powerful, adding another honorable panel to the growing body of works on the catastrophic phenomenon.
04/26/08
A poignant and heart-affecting screen adaptation of a 1996 novel about suffering and the redemptive power of love.
05/01/08
[A] lovely, absorbing adaptation of Anne Michaels' lauded novel.
05/02/08
A valuable addition to the treasure-trove of Holocaust films--this one about a Greek gentile who saves a Polish Jew.
04/29/08
Tasteful, unremarkable art-house fare, rescued from complete irrelevance by Stephen Dillane's bottled-up performance as a writer scarred by the Holocaust.
06/13/08
Given the source novel, Podeswa's attempt to adapt Fugitive Pieces is admirable in itself. Yet despite an enthusiastic cast, this fails to transport you in the same way. Tying itself in narrative knots, the end result is stilted.
05/29/09
A sumptuous looking film that flits seamlessly between wartime Europe and '70s Canada.
11/21/08
For a tale spiked with so much torment, Fugitive Pieces feels remarkably soothing.
05/02/08
Top CriticThe great Serbian actor Rade Serbedzija gives Fugitive Pieces its heart.
07/11/08
An almost strenuously dignified enterprise.
08/07/08
mia ap' tis pio entimes, katharies ki eilikrineis synaisthimatikes istories poy mporeis na petyheis sto pani, i opoia an hanei kapoy, einai sti dynatotita tis na sikosei to baros ton filodoksion tis
05/14/09
Nuanced, scrupulous and powerful.
04/30/08
Nuanced, scrupulous and powerful...
11/19/08
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