'To live with ghosts requires solitude," says the writer Jakob Beer, a man understandably haunted by his past - and unable to live in the present, with his loving wife, because childhood traumas linger in his dreams. And, in the pages of his manuscript.
Fugitive Pieces, based on the novel by the Canadian Anne Michaels, and brought to the screen by Canadian Jeremy Podeswa (The Five Senses), is a handsome, emotionally predictable affair about surviving: A child (the young Jakob, played by Robbie Kay) witnesses the murder of his parents and abduction of his sister by Nazis. Only 9, he is smuggled out of Poland by a Greek archaeologist (Rade Sherbedgia), who takes Jakob back to Zakynthos and raises him as his own.
