Fugitive Peace :: Fugitive Pieces is one of those rare marriages of literature and film which succeeds by allowing both word and image to conspire, together, as central elements of the story. Anne Michael's book is hundreds of pages of tone poetry. A banquet of lush word images. The film adaptation is itself a tone poem of image, lushly realized in both production design and cinematography, but does not forget the words. Spoken in voice-over, in dialogue. Sumptuous. Here are two brief moments.
