Middle-aged Polish Jew Jakob Beer reflects on his entire life. When he was an adolescent during World War II, Nazis shot his parents dead and hauled away his sister Bella; he witnessed these events from a hideout in their home. He ran away and was found by Athos Roussos, a Greek national working on an archaeological project in Poland; Athos managed to smuggle Jakob out of Poland and into Greece. A few years later, Athos and Jakob moved to Canada where Athos began work as a te... (Full plot summary below)
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Middle-aged Polish Jew Jakob Beer reflects on his entire life. When he was an adolescent during World War II, Nazis shot his parents dead and hauled away his sister Bella; he witnessed these events from a hideout in their home. He ran away and was found by Athos Roussos, a Greek national working on an archaeological project in Poland; Athos managed to smuggle Jakob out of Poland and into Greece. A few years later, Athos and Jakob moved to Canada where Athos began work as a teacher. Jakob constantly dreamed of Bella, especially her piano-playing, but never knew her ultimate fate. Jakob's reflections, especially the emotions stemming from his thoughts, led to him authoring a successful book. His marriage to his first wife, the upbeat, outgoing Alex, failed because he couldn't shake the somberness of his past. He couldn't commit to a relationship until he came to understand his dreams about Bella. Meanwhile, he had a lifelong friendship with his neighbors in Canada, a Jewish family who were also fighting the demons of their past.
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| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA valuable addition to the treasure-trove of Holocaust films--this one about a Greek gentile who saves a Polish Jew. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesTasteful, unremarkable art-house fare, rescued from complete irrelevance by Stephen Dillane's bottled-up performance as a writer scarred by the Holocaust. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldFugitive Pieces is an often lovely work, haunting its viewer long afterward with its quiet observations on what remains with us. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyFugitive Pieces delivers its own evocative poetry. |
| Total FilmMatt GlasbyBut while there's life, there's hope, and Jeremy Podeswa's delicate, deliberate adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel follows Jakob's heartrending progress from the darkness to the light. |
| MovieTime, ABC Radio NationalJason Di RossoA sumptuous looking film that flits seamlessly between wartime Europe and '70s Canada. |
| Chicago TribuneSid SmithThe performances are often more compelling than the movie's sometimes static storytelling. |
| I.E. WeeklyAmy NicholsonSliding from past to present without an overt purpose, Jakob's story has the grand and aimless sweep of a mini-series |
| Let's Not ListenTricia OlszewskiThe film occasionally gets weighed down by its ponderousness, but despite a few lags, it's always involving. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinHopscotching time on film is never easy, but Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa handles it with skill and care in Fugitive Pieces, his lovely, absorbing adaptation of Anne Michaels' lauded novel about a circumspect writer haunted by his traumatic past. |
