Fugitive Pieces 2007
Fugitive Pieces 2007
R | 1h 44min | Drama, War | 9 May 2008 (USA)
Storyline:
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for some sexuality
User review:
This film has rare qualities. It is pensive, intelligent and looks for truths, not flash. It has depth rarely seen in english films. Mid-film though, I was wondering if it is going somewhere. Then I saw, it is not going it’s coming toward us. The story of a boy survivor arriving to normalcy, finally, with what he has, his loving ghosts.
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Writers: Anne Michaels (novel), Jeremy Podeswa
Stars: Robbie Kay, Monika Schurmann, Nina Dobrev
Country: Greece | Canada
Language: English | Greek | Yiddish | German
Release Date: 9 May 2008 (USA)
Filming Locations: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765451/
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 697 MiB
Duration : 1 h 45 min
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 920 kb/s
OMG, powerful film.
The grace of the godfather to his adopted boy is so beautiful, but of course the boy is haunted. He writes to free himself, but it causes his first love to fail, “Those who live with ghosts must live in solitude.” As he wrestles to come to terms with the unknown fate of his sister, he helps a neighbor boy come to terms with his parents.
The holocaust is the source of the tragedy, but doesn’t overwhelm the story, which takes place in Greece, as he hides in the house of his godfather, and then in Canada when both emigrate after the war.
Heavy, but emotionally satisfying. Have tissues at the ready.