In the first eight episodes of NBC s sci-fi drama,
Debris, CIA operative Bryan Beneventi (Jonathan Tucker) and MI6 operative Finola Jones (Riann Steele) have worked together under the joint organization Orbital to investigate pieces of an alien spacecraft that have crashed to Earth. From the start, Beneventi s boss/handler, Craig Maddox (Norbert Leo Butz), has ordered him to lie to Jones about the truth about her deceased father, astrophysicist George Jones (Tyrone Benskin). However, as the debris cases have gotten weirder and more harrowing for the two agents in the field, so too has their interest in lying to each other to protect state secrets.
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó
Starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Benny Safdie, Sarah Snook, Molly Parker, Iliza Shlesinger, Jimmie Fails, Tyrone Benskin, and Frank Schorpion.
SYNOPSIS:
There are pieces of a great movie within
Pieces of a Woman (Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó lends a strongly empathetic and gentle touch to regular screenwriting collaborator Kata Wéber’s equally profound script that practically drips with grief and complex characters each entrenched in their own personal pain), a searing film centered on stillborn loss and the subsequent sorrow. The film is going to prove to be a tearjerker to almost anyone that watches it (the only exception being heartless people), but everything about this character study of tragedy and pain aligns with my personal taste so closely that it’s a disappointment I’m not coming away from it hailing it as the must-see artistic experience of the year and an underdog Oscar contender. Somewhere along th