Review of Fugitive Pieces (2008) by Wrik S — 25 Oct 2011

Just started watching this movie. I am on a Rosamund Pike kick this week.

This review of Fugitive Pieces (2008) was written by Wrik S on 25 Oct 2011.

Fugitive Pieces has generally received positive reviews.

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By Terri H (1,064) on 06 Jan 2009

Yet to read the book and cannot compare the two mediums. The film was as touching as it was brutal…

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By Tanzina S (6) on 01 May 2009

This was such a moving film & it reminded me of Un Couer en Hiver, Il Postino, and Cinema Paradiso…

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By Elizabeth A (165) on 04 Mar 2010

An interesting film and a really good one. I liked it. Nice cast too…

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By James N (413) on 17 Dec 2008

Extremely sensitive and perceptive portrayal of the pain and grief of the past, individual and collective, being relived and then redeemed…

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By Sophie Ivan (49) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 28 May 2009

Despite a rich premise, the soul-searching of the older Jakob is, at best, curiously colourless; at worst, positively grating…

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By Darryl L (50) on 11 Jul 2009

It's a treat to watch a movie you know nothing about and to be pleasantly surprised. This is a very good movie…

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By Melissa A (347) on 20 Jul 2009

The innocence of a child is broken when a young Jewish boy living in Poland named Jakob witnesses his family killed by Nazis…

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By Brian R (1,372) on 01 Jul 2010

The best narrating n self searching movie to me...a movie with perfection this movie may have some lackings, but not to me !...a real poetic movie…

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By Kevin C (1,734) on 17 Dec 2008

There's an interesting story here somewhere but it doesn't really come across very well on film…

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By Harry T (192) on 28 Mar 2009

Kinda of slow and boring, without the lyric power of the book, fails transfer the poetic atmosphere with not at all persuasive performances…

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