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'Fugitive Pieces'

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Hopscotching time on film is never an easy task, but Canadian writer-director Jeremy Podeswa handles it with skill and care in his lovely, absorbing adaptation of Anne Michaels' lauded novel about a circumspect writer haunted by his traumatic youth.

Podeswa shifts and crisscrosses between parallel paths to tell this affecting story. The first is set during World War II after little Jakob...

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