'Pieces of a Woman' Has Midwives Talking About That Birth Scene

‘Pieces of a Woman’ Has Midwives Talking About That Birth Scene
Vanessa Kirby’s Oscar-nominated performance involves an extended sequence that these experts say gets some things right — and a few wrong.
Molly Parker as a midwife and Vanessa Kirby as a woman going into labor in “Pieces of a Woman.”Credit...Benjamin Loeb/Netflix
April 14, 2021, 3:52 p.m. ET
In the movies, birth is usually an emergency. It begins with the woman’s water breaking, at the worst possible moment. She appears to be barely in labor, and yet she is rushed, through gridlock traffic, to the hospital. There she becomes angry, and the pain is her husband’s fault. She yells at him, perhaps even injures him, and orders him to get a vasectomy. Then she begs for an epidural, but for some reason, she can’t have it. After four minutes of intense screaming, she’s handed something that looks like the Gerber baby.

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