#Fugitive Pieces

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Fugitive Pieces," originally published in 1996

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Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

[exhaled-spirals]

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

— Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

[doingthisbecauseofboredom]

[erwin-ando]

Just finished watching Fugitive pieces…hes so sweet and pretty in this film and I’m literally crying for him

[fokikowest]

Stephen Dillane (Fugitive Pieces) - Interview | Celebrity Interviews https://www.showtimes.com/celebrity-interviews/stephen-dillane-fugitive-pieces-6310/

[dolcissimamiavita]

“Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications.” ― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

＊Hayim Nahman Bialik: Jewish poet (January 9, 1873 – July 4, 1934)

”詩を翻訳で読むのは、ベールをとおして女性にきすするようなものだ”と、ビアーリクは書いている。ついでに言えば、純正語と民衆語の混交したギリシャ詩を読むのは、ふたりの女性にキスするようなものだろう。翻訳とは一種の化体をひきおこす作業である。ひとつの詩が、もうひとつ別の詩になる。翻訳者は、自分の生き方を決めるように、翻訳のしかたを決めることができる。細部を犠牲にして全体の意味を伝える自由訳もあれば、わかりやすさより原文との正確な対応を重視する逐語訳もある。詩人は現実から言葉へ移行し、翻訳者は言葉から現実へ移行する。どちらも移民のように身を映しながら、目に見えないもの、行間にあるもの、神秘的な含意を、とらえようとする。（アン・マイクルズ『儚い光』黒原敏行訳）

[girlwithlandscape]

“Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.”

— Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

[books-in-media]

Natalie Portman, (On set of Star Wars)

—Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels, (1996)

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[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Fugitive Pieces," originally published in 1996

[suppressedzak]

"I spent the day writing my letter to the dead and was answered at night in my sleep." - Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

[ladyalysoftheblueajah]

Just watched this movie for the first time yesterday and now I want to read the book! Honestly, I’m just trying to fill my Rosamund Pike void while I wait for WoT s3 so yesterday I watched two of her movies: Beirut, which she’s an fbi/cia character and speaks 3 different languages in the film, very sexy and then this movie, Fugitive Pieces. I’m not kidding you, it is now my favorite movie and not because it has Ros in it, she’s barely on screen, a minor character. But it’s such a moving and beautiful film. I honestly cried through the whole thing, therapeutic cry. There was one point when I said aloud to myself, “his inner child is being healed” then started bawling again.

Happy Birthday Rosamund Pike, you lucky lady!!

[doingthisbecauseofboredom]

[byneddiedingo]

Rade Serbedzija and Robbie Kay in Fugitive Pieces (Jeremy Podeswa, 2007)

Cast: Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer, Robbie Kay, Ed Stoppard, Rachelle Lefevre, Themis Bazaka, Nina Dobrev, Diego Matamoros. Screenplay: Jeremy Podeswa, based on a novel by Anne Michaels. Cinematography: Gregory Middleton. Production design: Matthew Davies. Film editing: Wiebke von Carolsfeld. Music: Nikos Kypourgos. 

Jeremy Podeswa's Fugitive Pieces, adapted by the director from a novel by Anne Michaels, takes as its subject the experience of "survivor guilt." Its protagonist, Jakob Beer (played as a child by Robbie Kay and as a man by Stephen Dillane), escapes from the Nazis but loses his family in the Holocaust. He is rescued by Athos Roussos (Rade Serbedzija), a Greek archaeologist who was working in Poland on a dig and discovered Jakob hiding in the woods. Somehow -- the film is unclear on exactly how -- Athos smuggles Jakob out of Poland to his home in Greece, and after the war the two emigrate to Canada, where Athos has been invited to teach. Jakob grows up haunted by his childhood trauma, and his first marriage, to a woman named Alex (Rosamund Pike), ends when she reads his journals and discovers what a barrier Jakob's experiences have created between them. Jakob is particularly tormented by the loss of his sister, Bella (Nina Dobrev), a talented musician, who often appears in his dreams. Even after publishing a book about his life, Jakob doesn't fully overcome the past until after the death of Athos, whose wisdom he comes to appreciate with the help of another woman, Michaela (Ayelet Zurer). There is a subplot involving the Jewish couple across the hall from Athos and Jakob in Canada, whose son, Ben (Ed Stoppard), grows up hating his father, a Holocaust survivor, for his harshness: The father, for example, berates Ben for not finishing the apple he has been eating, reminding him how grateful people in the camps would have been for the food. Despite excellent performances from everyone, the film sinks too often into sentimentality and stereotypes: Serbedzija's performance is a standout, but he can't overcome the fact that Athos, though a university professor, is presented as too much the wise and kindly peasant-sage, preaching the value of ties to the earth. There are some major gaps in the narrative, like the journey from Poland to Greece, and some overall shapelessness, and the ending is much too pat.

[ladyalysoftheblueajah]

This scene made my heart ache for Rosamund’s character 😭

Fugitive Pieces (2007)