Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Tyrone Benskin, Ellen Burstyn, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Walker, Molly Parker, Sean Tucker, Steven McCarthy, Vanessa Kirby, Sarah Snook, Frank Schorpion, Leisa Reid, Benny Safdie, Iliza Shlesinger, Harry Standjofski, Jimmie Fails, Domenic Di Rosa, Juliette Casagrande, Gayle Garfinkle, Vanessa Smythe, Alain Dahan, Joelle Jérémie
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Reviews
100
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
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
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
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.
