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Dir: Jeremy Podeswa. Cast: Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija, Rosamund Pike, Nina Dobrev, Ed Stoppard, Robbie Kay

 

Description: As the Nazis invade his hometown of Biskupin, little Jakob watches in horror as the Germans decimate his entire family, including his beloved sister Bella. The boy flees into the woods where Greek archaeologist Athos takes the frightened youngster under his wing and spirits him away to safety on his island home. When the conflict ends, Athos moves to Toronto where Jacob forges ties with the Jewish immigrant family next door and their studious son, Ben. Many years later, Jakob seeks the truth as a writer, with a beautiful and vivacious wife, Alex. However, he is haunted by the ghosts of the past.

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An adaptation of Anne Michaels’s prize-winning novel, Fugitive Pieces reduces the Holocaust and its aftermath to a cosy soap opera. Stephen Dillane is writer Jakob Beer, who can’t forget that his parents — and possibly his sister Bella (Nina Dobrev) — were killed by the Nazis in Poland. Wafting back and forth through time, we meet a cute, troubled urchin, a wise old man, a weeping blonde and a beaming brunette.

Beer eventually decides to divide his time between Canada and Greece. Come to Greece, you all but hear a sultry voice say, where all your yesterdays can become a tomorrow ...

The acting, in general, is excellent (only Rosamund Pike, as Beer’s uncomprehending first wife, looks a tad lost). Dillane is suitably sweet and rattled, Rade Serbedzija, as his mentor Athos, rumbles with integrity. But acting can’t save the film. Obviously a labour of love for Canadian director/scriptwriter Jeremy Podeswa, the project nevertheless lacks any singularity.

There’s no sense of poetry, no edge. The result is a highbrow Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.


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