The cool hand of Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa proves a disappointing match for “Fugitive Pieces,” a generally dull and unmemorable adaptation of Anne Michaels’ extraordinary prose-poetry ...

“Fugitive Pieces” begins with trauma and separation: Born to a Jewish family in occupied Poland, Jakob Beer barely escapes as Nazis kill his father and abduct his mother and sister. Miraculously, he ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - "Fugitive Pieces" tackles familiar Holocaust themes but does so as a poetic ghost story that delves deeply into issues of loss and memory. Sign up here. The film from ...

When Canadian filmmaker Jeremy Podeswa -- the director of "Eclipse" (1994) and "The Five Senses" (1999) -- was honored as an Emerging Master at the recent Seattle International Film Festival, it ...

From the very first frame, it’s clear that Robert Downey Jr.’s reputation for hazardous behaviour is going to play a key role in forging this new superhero franchise: we see him bouncing over ...

This lugubrious film about a Holocaust survivor is based on a respected novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels. I’ve never read it, and the worst thing about this adaptation is the idea of reading it ...

The world premiere of Jeremy Podeswa’s “Fugitive Pieces” has been tapped to open the 32nd Toronto Film Festival. “Fugitive Pieces” stars Stephen Dillane (“The Hours”) as a man struggling to overcome ...

Jeremy Podeswa's adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces, a young boy hides in his house in Poland in 1942, and through the cracks in the baseboard, he watches Nazis kill his parents and ...

Fugitive Pieces tells the story of Jakob Beer (Stephen Dillane), a man whose life is transformed by his childhood experiences during WWII as it explores the layers of memory as one wrestles with ...

Jeremy Podeswa’s handsome adaptation of Anne Michaels’s novel hops around time to tell the story of a Jewish boy who is saved from the Nazis by a Greek archaeologist, only to be tormented as an adult ...