Fugitive Pieces delivers its own evocative poetry.
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07/11/08
Fugitive Pieces (2008)
69 %
Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 27 Rotten:12 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Consensus:
Though the retelling is a bit too subtle, the moving story and solid performances lift Fugitive Pieces beyond standard holocaust tales.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
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 (Robbie Kay) is hidden away just before German soldiers storm into his Jewish family's home.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Stephen Dillane, Rade Sherbedgia, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer, Robbie Kay
Reviews
The great Serbian actor Rade Serbedzija gives Fugitive Pieces its heart.
07/11/08
... defaults to a kind of poetic conventionality that is unlikely to completely satisfy fans of either The Pianist or The Love Letter.
07/11/08
Fugitive Pieces is an often lovely work, haunting its viewer long afterward with its quiet observations on what remains with us.
06/27/08
Ultimately, Podeswa fashions this collection of familiar characters and overworked themes into something unique: a wistful parable about the destructive hold the past has on all of our lives and the absolute necessity of breaking it.
06/26/08
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
If Fugitive Pieces has a message, it is that life can heal us, if we allow it.
06/13/08
Top Critic
Fugitive Pieces is often quiet, lyrical, reflective and underplayed. It doesn't minimize Holocaust suffering--far from it--but it strives, often successfully, to unearth the innate good in people Anne Frank alluded to so eloquently.
06/13/08
Everyone in the movie...is fabulous, and Podeswa has an ability to distill history into a few powerful images.
05/16/08
The cast is uniformly attractive and earnest. But the romanticized image of the tortured artist is the stuff of stereotype unless it's leavened with humor, or limned in art. In Fugitive Pieces, neither element appears in sufficient quantity.
05/15/08
The film occasionally gets weighed down by its ponderousness, but despite a few lags, it's always involving.
05/14/08
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
Feels less like a redemptive survivor's story and more like a commercial for some terrific Mediterranean resort.
05/09/08
...a drama about good people struggling to make the right choices in life.
05/09/08
Bit by fragmented bit, it all adds up to a one-note portrait of its protagonist. Granted, that one note is a powerful one.
05/08/08
This lyrical drama about memory and survivor's guilt taps a deep reservoir of emotions.
05/02/08
Top Critic
A generally dull and unmemorable adaptation of Anne Michaels' extraordinary prose-poetry novel.
05/02/08
Top Critic
It’s a character study in which the lead participant is the least interesting person in the movie. There’s something inherently frustrating and unsatisfying about that.
05/02/08
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