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Netflix s Pieces of a Woman can t live up to its unforgettable opening
Vanessa Kirby is sensational, though. 07/01/2021
Pieces of a Woman is now available to watch on Netflix and could prove to be a draw for fans of Vanessa Kirby s work on
If they ve got no idea what the movie is about though, they might regret that decision.
The movie appears to start innocently enough as Boston couple Martha (Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) get ready for the birth of their first child. He s urging his workmates to get a bridge completed as he wants to drive his daughter over it, she s enduring an awkward last-day baby shower party at work.
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Six minutes into the affecting melodrama, Pieces of a Woman, director Kornél Mundruczó ( White God ) plunges viewer into a bravura set piece a 24-minute, single-take sequence, shot with a handheld camera. Martha (Vanessa Kirby of The Crown ) is experiencing contractions and then her water breaks. Her partner, Sean (Shia LaBeouf), is attentive to her needs and tries to comfort her as Eva (Molly Parker, Deadwood ), a substitute midwife arrives. The baby experiences distress during labor, and although she is born and held by her mother for a moment, the infant soon turns blue and dies, leaving everyone bereft.
Grief on Trial in Pieces of a Woman
In Kornél Mundruczó s English-language debut for Netflix, a grieving mother bears her loss for the world to see.
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Grieving the loss of a child is a deep, specific, and enigmatic kind of pain. It’s nearly impossible to communicate to those who haven’t experienced it and subsequently arouses intense loneliness in its victim.
Pieces of a Woman explores the sensation of grieving a child; raw, lethargic, and at times confusing. Hungarian director
Kornél Mundruczó (
White God) knows that this story does not have room for melodrama – only the truths that people often shy away from.
Pieces of a Woman is most rewarding when Kirby is the emotional centre of gravity. She substantiates the perspective of a mother struggling to accept and endure an unimaginable loss in silence.
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