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Fugitive Pieces [DVD] [2008]
enlarge	Director: Jeremy Podeswa Actors: Stephen Dillane, Rosamund Pike, Rade Serbedzija, Ayelet Zurer, Robbie Kay Studio: Soda Pictures Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £10.88 as of 23/11/2009 05:40 GMT details You Save: £5.11 (32%) New (10) Used (2) from £9.50 Seller: Amazon.co.uk Rating: 2 reviews Sales Rank: 27751 Format: PAL Language: English (Unknown) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 106 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5037899013052 ASIN: B002BB705O Theatrical Release Date: 2008 Release Date: August 31, 2009 Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours


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Customer Reviews: Evocative telling September 29, 2009 Ms.Marple Investigates (London, UK) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Based on the novel by Anne Michaels, Jeremy Podewsa (The Tudors) does a fine job of unravelling and revealing the emotional strands that lie behind protagonist Jakob's reserve. I found the novel to be quite a curate's egg - the first part intensely moving and evocative introducing us to young Jakob and his Greek archaelolgist saviour (played in the movie by Robbie Kay and Rade Sherbedzija)- followed by a disappointingly twee segment focusing on Jakob and his second love, Michaela. This is somewhat redeemed by the final section, which introduces us to Ben, the prickly son of Holocaust survivors who cannot cope with the weight of history or his parents differing needs. In the film Ben is a young neighbour, and most of his story is missing as Podeswa chooses to focus on Jakob. This works well and Stephen Dillane puts in a fine performance as the emotionally inarticulate but literate Jakob and Rosamund Pike brings his first wife, Alex, vibrantly to life, when in the novel she is a shallow, rather dislikeable character. Some of the syrup remains, however, but the performances of Dillane and Ayelet Zurer (as Michaela) make this more than bearable - and the island of Hydros provides a lovely background. Please read the book too! September 14, 2009 Mrs. Katharine Kirby (HELSTON, Cornwall United Kingdom) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful I was really excited about getting this film as I'd read the book a couple of years ago and went on thinking about it all for ages. The film was a bit disappointing to me because I had such strong ideas about the story from Anne Michael's beautiful poetic prose. A lot of the scenes are shot in dark rooms and the sound quality isn't great, thick accents mean that you may miss many of the wonderful lines that linger in the memory when read. Being partly set in Greece there was a chance for splendid scenery there and that does lighten the film luckily. However I wish there hadn't been quite so much lovemaking and bedroom scenes - more of Jacob's early years would have been interesting, he goes from a thin waif of a boy to fully fledged adolescent remarkably quickly. I wonder too how much of the clever and thought provoking story can be gleaned from the jumpy way in which the film script is written, so much of the tale needs explanation and checking to understand. Plus they altered the end completely! Still, a good way of spending a couple of hours and if you are inspired to read the book afterwards, well so much the better.

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