Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Vanessa KirbyMartha Weiss
- Shia LaBeoufSean Carson
- Ellen BurstynElizabeth Weiss
- Sarah SnookSuzanne Weiss
- Iliza ShlesingerAnita Weiss
- Benny SafdieChris
- Molly ParkerEva Woodward
- Steven McCarthyPhotographer
- Tyrone BenskinJudge
- Frank SchorpionLane
- 100
The Playlist
Wéber’s writing and Kirby’s performance, working in concert with Mundruczó’s dazzling, multifaceted direction, Howard Shore‘s gorgeously mood-appropriate score and, again, Loeb’s drifting, searching, soulful camera together create, from so many disparate pieces, an entirely complete portrait, that even suggests further internal universes still to be explored, universes every one of us contains. - 90
Variety
Mundruczó and Wéber gave her the pieces from which to assemble this character, but only Kirby could have taken that puzzle and turned it into such an astonishing portrait. - 79
TheWrap
Pieces of a Woman is grounded and intensely personal. Much of that is due to the towering and heartbreaking performance by Kirby. - 75
The Film Stage
Pieces of a Woman engages with many topical issues surrounding women’s health, and the connection of biology to psychology. It won’t quite leave one in pieces, but the film has a subtle grace all of its own. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Those with the stomach for a forcefully acted representation of the gut-wrenching impact and long-range after-effects of sudden infant death will be rewarded with moments both powerful and affecting. - 67
Consequence
Pieces of a Woman offers a superb performance by Vanessa Kirby, and the most unnerving opening of any film in 2020, but the familiar examination of marital disintegration struggles to sustain interest or justify its lengthy runtime. - 63
Slant Magazine
When the film’s actors are given space to etch their characters’ feelings, they turn in strikingly naturalistic performances. - 60
The Guardian
Viewed as an acting masterclass, the film is bruisingly impressive in its way. The principal actors raise the roof; each gets to do their big turn for the camera. But it feels a little schooled, a little staged, like a workshop at the Actors’ Studio.