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Only Four Out of the WGA Awards 31 Nominees Are Women
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The awards season’s narrative has been the “year of the women,” as female filmmakers, screenwriters and artisans have been making strong cases for nominations at the Oscars in categories like best picture and director. The Writers Guild of America Awards, however, might have missed the memo, only nominating four women over two films: Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman” and Jena Friedman, Erica Rivinoja and Nina Pedrad, three co-writers from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”
In the three categories for original, adapted and documentary feature, 31 total screenwriters were nominated, four of which are women, and three come from the same feature film.
Pieces Of A Woman: Midwives on the accuracy of the home birth scene What the Netflix movie starring Vanessa Kirby gets right and wrong in its portrayal of home birth and parental grief by Kevin Ritchie, Radheyan Simonpillai on February 5th, 2021 at 10:30 PM 1 of 1 2 of 1
During the pandemic, midwife associations in Canada have reported an uptick in interest in home births among parents who want to avoid the hospital system.
Some of these parents-to-be may also be sitting at home watching Netflix and come across Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s
Pieces Of A Woman, about a Boston couple (Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf) grieving a childbirth-related loss. The movie opens with a 30-minute home birth scene that sets up its story.
th, was one of
Netflix’s first film releases of the new year. It follows a bereaved mother’s year long journey of grief after the loss of her newborn baby. In a story that begins as a domestic drama in a small space, the unimaginable emotions surrounding the trauma of neo– natal death, transforms the plotline into a wider tale of suffering.
Presenting grief on the screen will never be an easy feat, it is one of the most subjective and personal matters of human life. Whatever your age, gender, race or religion the loss of life will always hurt, and the loss of a baby seems even more incomprehensible.
Vanessa Kirby in a scene from “Pieces of a Woman.” (Benjamin Loeb/Netflix )
One can imagine some audience members walking out of the theater (or exercising the “EXIT” option on their home viewing devices) during the first half-hour or so of “Pieces of a Woman” – not because of any weakness in the movie, but due to the intense, heart-stopping, draining and almost painfully realistic nature of a sequence in which three characters experience some of the highest emotional highs and lowest possible lows imaginable over the course of one evening.
It’s a childbirth sequence. One that ends with unspeakable, terrifying, gut-punching tragedy.