Pieces of a Woman

    Pieces of a Woman
    2020

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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