Netflix has since dropped him from its For Your Consideration page for the upcoming awards season.
The film starts with its focus on this young couple and their journey to parenthood. As it progresses, it grows to become about Martha s larger family. Martha s mother buys a car for her and Sean and the salesperson is Martha s brother-in-law, Chris (Benny Safdie). The lawyer for their case against the mid-wife is Martha s cousin, Suzanne (Sarah Snook), who also begins an affair with Sean. This is all treated very flippantly in the script. This family intercepted every aspect of this couple s life. We never learn anything about Sean s family. Did they know about the baby? Were they excited?
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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.
Vanessa Kirby as Martha in the film Pieces of a Woman. (Courtesy Benjamin Loeb/Netflix)
The most amusing caveat in Netflix’s unverifiable and often credulity-stretching announcements of viewer metrics is their assertion that a program qualifies as “watched” if the subscriber streamed it for more than two minutes. This has always seemed to me like a cheat. Why not instead tally the folks who stuck it out to the closing credits that Netflix makes so annoyingly difficult to see? I guess any company in the business of producing 131-minute Adam Sandler comedies doesn’t actually expect us to watch things all the way through, but their vast data mines nonetheless contain comprehensive algorithmic analyses of exactly what you watched and for how long you watched it, including when you bailed on “Bird Box” and how many times you may have replayed a certain scene from “Blue Is the Warmest Color.”