Fugitive Pieces is a quiet and sensitive film that has a touching poetic quality and Robbie Kay turns in one of the best child performances I have seen in years. Her vivacity and joy for life is in sharp contrast to his solemnity and he “longs for the loss of memory”, and writes about his wife’s “shameless vitality” saying, “To live with ghosts requires solitude”.Īfter their breakup, Jakob falls in love with Micheala (Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer), a scholar twenty-five years his junior, and her charm and intelligence allows him to venture out of his shell. Though Jakob has become a successful writer in Canada himself, his marriage to the lovely Alex (Rosamund Pike) is threatened by haunting memories of Bella and his obsession with the Holocaust. Jakob, now played as an adult by Stephen Dillane, has neighbors who are also Jewish immigrants and he develops a close relationship with Ben (Ed Stoppard) who he watches grow into a gifted writer. If we don’t have this, what are we?” After the war, Athos receives a teaching position in Canada and they move there hoping to forget the past. “I will be your koumbaros, your godfather,” Athos says. The relationship between Jakob and Athos is slow to develop but they eventually form a bond.
Athos brings the traumatized boy to his home on the sun-drenched island of Zakynthos in Greece where they live through the Nazi occupation, suffering deprivation but surviving the atrocities that befall Greece’s Jewish community. Hiding in the forest, he plants himself into the ground “like a turnip”, hiding his face with leaves until he is discovered by Athos Roussos (Rade Serbedzija), a warm hearted Zorba-like Greek archaeologist on a dig. Disregarding Bella’s instructions to remain at home, Jakob runs away.
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