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

An acting coach's favorite movie.

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.

kirby: full loaded

"Time heals all wounds"
                         - Guy at the Church
                                               - Benny Safdie

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.

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Too bad her daughter wasn't able to join Batman and Superman's Martha battle.

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2020 Awards related viewing.

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.” 

My god, the opening of this film.