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In the bruising melodrama “Pieces of a Woman,” Vanessa Kirby does something remarkable and rare or at least, she makes it seem rare. She brings sharp emotional definition to a character who, in the throes of a devastating loss, refuses to make her feelings easily readable, or consolable, for those around her. Not for her partner, who can scarcely contain his own spasms of grief. Not for the nosy family friend who pulls her into a hug at the supermarket, promising her that justice will be served. And least of all perhaps for the viewer, whom the movie sometimes brings in agonizingly close and sometimes keeps at an equally painful distance, as if to suggest the limits of our understanding and maybe even our right to understand. ....
“ Pieces of a Woman ” begins with a tragedy. Martha (Vanessa Kirby) is expecting her first child with her partner Sean (Shia LaBeouf). For a few minutes, we ....
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★★★ IN THIS seventh collaboration between action titan Jackie Chan and director Stanley Tong, the Middle Kingdom gives its answer to the Mission: Impossible franchise in an international espionage romp with all the lunacy of a Fast & Furious sequel. Chan is Tang Huanting, the London-based leader of the elite titular security service, whose team are called into action to protect an asset’s daughter from a Middle Eastern warlord in pursuit of next-generation WMDs. Globe-hopping action straddles three continents in a cheeky adventure thriller, laden with over-the-top stunts, ludicrously implausible set-pieces and even some CGI lions to boot. Having been behind some of Chan’s more notable actioners, including his American breakout, Rumble in the Bronx, Tong more than knows how to stage a handsome-looking kinetic thriller and he certainly doesn’t disappoint. ....
Pieces of a Woman, which premiered at TIFF last year, is a harrowing drama that centers on unimaginable grief and loss. The film follows Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf), who are eagerly expecting their first baby. We see the couple picking up their new minivan, one that is being paid for by Martha’s mother, Elizabeth (Ellen Burstyn). We can already sense the tension between Elizabeth and the couple. Martha, who has planned a home birth, goes into labor that same night. However, since her midwife is busy with another delivery, a replacement midwife named Eva (Molly Parker) is sent to the house to handle the home birth. Unfortunately, complications arise when the midwife can’t find a pulse for the baby, leaving the couple devastated after they lose their child. The couple handles the loss in very different ways and struggle to reconnect with each other. ....