Synopsis
A heartbreaking home birth leaves a woman grappling with the profound emotional fallout, isolated from her partner and family by a chasm of grief.
2020 Directed by Kornél Mundruczó
A heartbreaking home birth leaves a woman grappling with the profound emotional fallout, isolated from her partner and family by a chasm of grief.
Vanessa Kirby Shia LaBeouf Ellen Burstyn Iliza Shlesinger Benny Safdie Sarah Snook Molly Parker Steven McCarthy Tyrone Benskin Frank Schorpion Harry Standjofski Domenic Di Rosa Jimmie Fails Juliette Casagrande Gayle Garfinkle Vanessa Smythe Nick Walker Sean Tucker Alain Dahan Joelle Jérémie Leisa Reid
Aaron Ryder Martin Scorsese Kevin Turen Sam Levinson Viktória Petrányi Aaron L. Gilbert Andria Spring Jason Cloth Stuart Manashil Steven Thibault Richard McConnell Harrison Kreiss Ashley Levinson Katia Washington Suraj Maraboyina Adam Somer
Bron Studios Little Lamb Productions Creative Wealth Media Finance Proton Cinema Sikelia Productions
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Seeing Shia LaBeouf's problematic ass being cast in movies in 2020-2021 feels like Jeffrey Star’s career
Unnecessary
they had benny safdie hit the vape and for what. what did that add. that’s all im thinking about
when the title card comes up and you realise that you've been holding your breath the entire time
vanessa kirby burps for 30 minutes and she still looks ethereal it’s not FAIR she has too much power
I like to ask myself after watching a movie “Would this movie exist if it wasn’t trying to win any awards?” There simple answer with Pieces of a Woman is no. Despite its heartbreaking themes and amazingly difficult dramatic performances, something about it feels empty. It’s as if you watched these characters go through pain without reason. I get that this movie is a vehicle for the actors to really do their thing but if you wanna make a truly great movie you gotta have more meat to it. The story is pretty one-note and none of the characters feel multi-layered, leaving the movie to have no other reason to exist besides getting Vanessa Kirby (and maybe Ellen Burstyn) an Oscar.
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó and starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Benny Safdie and Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman is an incredibly grounded and intensely personal storyline that follows a young mother's home birth that ends in tragedy.
This is, completely, Vanessa Kirby's film. She's utterly outstanding in the leading role with her performance standing out as one of the best I've seen in quite a while. She draws us inside Martha's mental state to the point it feels like we're sitting inside her mind looking out at the world through her eyes. She conveys the confusion, anger, and desolation of what her character is going through with immense force that, sitting there in the pick black, stunned me to…
Despite liking director Kornél Mundruczó's White God, there were too many problematic things about this film. Ellen Burstyn plays the mother of Martha (Vanessa Kirby). Despite giving us top tier acting, the character: rich bitch who likes to blame everyone was repulsive and entitled. Vanessa Kirby gives a performance of a lifetime. In the right circumstances, this movie could have propelled her even further.
However, co-star Shia LaBeouf's presence is repulsive from start to finish. In real life, several of LaBeouf's partners have claimed he is abusive. In addition, LaBeouf's character sickening puts his hand on Martha's leg and tries to force her hand on his member, before sticking his hand down her pants. In addition, we are forced to…
Pieces of a Woman is probably one of the worst movies I've seen in quite a while. It's a Lifetime movie wrapped with arthouse tropes, featuring good scenes that are simply too scarce too little. Considering its deeply uncomfortable subject matter, it has all the advantages to be an emotional hard hitter, only for it to end up as one of the most tedious experiences to sit through this Oscar season.
Pieces of a Woman starts with its infamous one-shot birth scene, which is relatively the best sequence out of its over 2-hour runtime. We watch Vanessa Kirby as she goes through the agony of giving birth, which obviously is not something Kirby herself has gone through in real life…
Grief. There's no enemy, there's no solution. No amount of anger or frustration expressed alleviates the pain, the experience of mutual loss breaking down relationships rather than strengthening them. The movie conveys this emotion, but nothing beyond it. We don't ever get progression with the characters and their emotional states from these dramatic events. They're suffering, they're unhappy, they're numb to the pain yet carrying on, but are they interesting?
More an acting exercise than a fully developed movie, Pieces of a Woman is a punishing experience for the audience as much as the actors on screen. The film opens with a grueling 30 minute oner of a birth that ends in disaster, followed by 90 minutes that wallow in unchecked misery, and despite its powerful performances and artistic merit, I'm not entirely sure it was worth my emotional investment. Pieces of a Woman? More like Pieces of a Story.
story of dealing with grief and loss I love the betrayal of the mother losing her child and that struggle with in the relationship and Ensues as such losses do affect relationships I’m glad it didn’t take a positive route and more so the struggle of finding how to let go
great movie with great acting but why are we pretending that the bosphorus is an american bridge???
vanessa kirby=fine white wine
The first 20 minutes are so intense that you are pulled in for an emotional rollercoaster ride the full 126 minutes. The joy of having a baby that leads to the sadness of that loss. Vanessa Kirby makes you feel every emotion and I was invested throughout the entire movie. You want to know if the couple will pull through. If Martha will survive her grief. The snowy Boston winter is the backdrop of this dismal venture and throw in Ellen Burstyn as a controlling, judgy mother! I was asked if I would recommend this movie and I would say yes. Just grab a box of tissues as you root Martha on to come out the other side of this heart-breaking journey.
This is definitely not for those people who don't like slow and silent films. I actually found a lot of parts uninteresting and a bit boring. Except maybe for the very intense and really enjoyable opening scene, I felt like there aren't enough happenings after that that would make a viewer want more. The cinematography is mostly good, though, and the acting is without a doubt amazing. I was also touched by a few moments, especially towards the end. So, I guess if you are patient with movies like this, and you can be entertained by a show just by the performance of the cast and camera works in it, it's still worth a try.
Too bad her daughter wasn't able to join Batman and Superman's Martha battle.
Full Review (Instagram)
as important as pieces of a woman is as a story that — though so many women experience, yet is so rarely known, acknowledged or even spoken about — finally tries to depict the personal experiences of a woman (& those around her) after the loss of a child; it isn’t perfect. if only it were even more personal, intimate & centric of its main character (in one of vanessa kirby’s best performances), expressing her seemingly ‘emotionless’ state as well as more intense & evident moments of emotion. if only it didn’t let other characters get away with things in the name of them expressing their own negative emotions, & seemingly getting away with them in the end. if only. though that isn’t to say pieces of a woman isn’t good (that second courtroom scene in & of itself is so good), but it could have been so much more than that — an intimate, personal, explorative & extremely special film like very few before.
The first part is engaging, the second part is kinda slow. But this thing about apples broke my heart
beautiful, raw and emotional, Pieces of a woman portrays the pain experienced from a traumatic home birth. vanessa captivates in the movie with her realistic depiction of grief and eventual healing. portraying how giving birth can really change ones marriage and self.
“there might be a reason for what happened but we are not going to find it here in this room.”
Ooof this is Ruff Stuff. Surprised something this heavy made it to the level of Netflix Fad Movie of the Week like it briefly did there. Based on the way this was marketed I was sort of expecting melodrama, but that's before I noticed it was by the writer/director team who made the brutal White God. Wow. Plus composer Howard Shore, who I specifically remember from his commentary track on Se7en which I listened to last year.
The first 30 minutes is difficult, bracing, scary, very much made me never want to give birth. (Full frontal on baby crowning aaaaah! There's also a Shia full-frontal moment later, this movie is an equal-opportunity squick.) Then the next 90 I kind of…
That one take was one of the best shot, directed and acted scenes I’ve seen in a while.
Pieces of a Woman deals with the grief of the characters in such a beautiful and delicate way. The direction is fantastic, and the subtle, and when need be emotional, showcase from Kirby is deserving of Oscar hype. If Shia LaBeouf hadn’t been shamed in controversy then I seriously believe I would have been nominated to. He is incredible as Kirby’s partner. The side performances are also great and really compensate the two leads.
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