Pieces of a Woman (2020)

Pieces of a Woman: Directed by Kornél Mundruczó. With Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Iliza Shlesinger. When a young mother’s home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

“The lives of two people decimated with the loss of their newborn baby girl. Grabbing the viewersu0026#39; attention from the off, as every parentu0026#39;s nightmare is lived out in graphic detail at the close of a thirty minute escalation that lays the foundations for a bridge to the unimaginable, a trajectory paved with chaos, veiled and shrouded in turmoil, suspended on tenterhooks as tense and as taught as Tacoma. With anticipation and expectation set, itu0026#39;s a little disappointing to find this resonance, once established and secured soon decays and rapidly fades, from the deeps to the shallows, as the story begins to mainstream with its contemporaries, as opportunity, empathy and originality are lost and the only structure left standing embodied through the performance of Vanessa Kirby, who will surely go on to much bigger and better crossings.”