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Pieces of a Woman

  • 2020
  • 15
  • 2h 6m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
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Vanessa Kirby in Pieces of a Woman (2020)
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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 woma... Read allWhen 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.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.

  • Director
    • Kornél Mundruczó
  • Writer
    • Kata Wéber
  • Stars
    • Vanessa Kirby
    • Shia LaBeouf
    • Ellen Burstyn
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    59K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,124
    1,105
    • Director
      • Kornél Mundruczó
    • Writer
      • Kata Wéber
    • Stars
      • Vanessa Kirby
      • Shia LaBeouf
      • Ellen Burstyn
    • 421User reviews
    • 253Critic reviews
    • 66Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 10 wins & 64 nominations total

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    Vanessa Kirby
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    • Martha
    Shia LaBeouf
    Shia LaBeouf
    • Sean
    Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn
    • Elizabeth
    Iliza Shlesinger
    Iliza Shlesinger
    • Anita
    Benny Safdie
    Benny Safdie
    • Chris
    Sarah Snook
    Sarah Snook
    • Suzanne
    Molly Parker
    Molly Parker
    • Eva
    Steven McCarthy
    Steven McCarthy
    • Photographer
    Tyrone Benskin
    Tyrone Benskin
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    Frank Schorpion
    Frank Schorpion
    • Lane
    Harry Standjofski
    Harry Standjofski
    • Court Clerk
    Domenic Di Rosa
    Domenic Di Rosa
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    Juliette Casagrande
    • Little Girl
    Gayle Garfinkle
    • Judith
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    • Linda
    Nick Walker
    • Peter
    Sean Tucker
    Sean Tucker
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    • Director
      • Kornél Mundruczó
    • Writer
      • Kata Wéber
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    8becky-92346

    A beautiful and heartbreaking film.

    Pieces of a Woman (2020) follows a woman who struggles to deal with the aftermath of a traumatic home birth. This film was a really beautiful film with a lot of heart and emotional. Such a brutally realistic portrayal of grief and I'm very happy i watched it.

    I loved the cinematography for this film! The colour palettes were subtle yet very visually pleasing and all the shots were framed really well. The camera panning was good and I liked how it tracked the characters, especially in this birth scene. The extreme close-ups used helped to convey the characters' emotions to the max and were very effective!

    The score was super melancholic throughout the whole film and immediately set the tone well. It was somewhat basic at points but I still found that it added a lot to the film and didn't really need to be 'unique' per say.

    All the performances were strong, with some well written and intense dialogue. The characters felt so real. Vanessa Kirby was phenomenal as the lead and her acting during the birth scene was unreal! I thought Ellen Burstyn was great in her role too, as she always is! My only criticism is that I'd have liked to have seen more of Benny Safdie's character! Also, I wanted to mention that the casting of the sister was accurate and a great choice!

    The film had strong themes of grief, and I found it to be brutally realistic in addressing such themes. I'm sure this is a movie many people, unfortunately, can relate to. Also, I loved the apple metaphor and it was beautifully addressed during the court scene, which was probably my favourite scene of the movie!

    Lastly, the pacing was slow and steady, but managed to keep me engaged and interest through the whole duration! I was completely drawn in to these people's lives, and it left me wanting more!
    7Xstal

    A Woman Fractured, Disintegrated, Through a Story Attenuated...

    The lives of two people decimated with the loss of their newborn baby girl. Grabbing the viewers' attention from the off, as every parent'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, it'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.
    7greenheart

    Powerful stuff

    Almost too traumatic to watch at times, particularly the birth scene at the beginning with the impending tragedy.

    After this, you find yourself watching a kind of ticking time bomb. I wasn't sure what was going to happen, was it going to end in violence, more tragedy, the tension almost seeped through the screen.

    I was not aware of. Vanessa Kirby before this movie, what an outstanding performance she delivered, she left absolutely nothing in the rehearsal room and gave a performance, as powerful as I can remember. She was very well supported by the cast around her.

    Grief must never be swept under the carpet, this movie, as hard as it is to watch at times, delivers a very important message.
    6bradh6886

    Pieces of a Woman review

    Opens on one of the most powerful long takes in recent memory, but not even the masterful performances by Kirby and Burstyn could save the dry 2nd and 3rd acts. Resolution felt incomplete. Kirby elevates an otherwise tough sit.
    6Neon_Gold

    Wonderful Acting

    People are saying that this movie is fantastic for the first half and then kinda looses steam. I kinda of agree but I think that it is much more up and down than that. The opening is really good but is a little manic at time. This bothered me a little bit but then I got the feeling that maybe it was on purpose to sort of drag us into the feelings of the characters at that moment.

    I do agree that this film does start to sag after the opening but it does have more peaks especially the scenes between Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn. The scenes in the later parts of the movie between them characters were so good to watch. It was just such a showcase of great acting.

    One small thing I found Shia's character to just be unlikable but that may be the fault of Shia I don't know. He was just so boring and flat and terrible.

    The film does look good and I think some of the small production design choices were really well thought out and I enjoyed the other little techniques that the film makers used to make it a little bit more Interesting.

    The score was just a tiny, tiny little bit off for me. It was so close for me but when I was enjoying it there would be a turn and I would be like oh no that wasn't right.

    The issues above are all pretty minor as I have one major one and that is the dialogue. It was so soggy. It was just like sluggish. Some of it was better than other parts but the clunkers were really just bad. There was a lot of "hi how are you" "I am good" "oh good me too" "that's good" "yeah that is good".

    I think you could watch it for the acting and especially the first half and parts in the latter half.

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    • Trivia
      As Vanessa Kirby has never given birth in real life, she watched numerous documentaries and videos and shadowed midwives in a hospital in North London and even was allowed to be in a room with a woman who was giving birth.
    • Goofs
      The painting in the lawyer's room, which her partner referred to as Tacoma Bridge, is actually Bosphorous Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, with Ortaköy Mosque in the foreground.
    • Quotes

      Elizabeth: And I'm ashamed of me. That I wasn't a good enough mother to teach you how to stand up and speak for yourself, for God's sakes. And to deal with this. Like my mother taught me. After my father went into the ghetto, my mother found a shack, an empty shack, that she went into and gave birth to me. Without any help at all. She stashed me under the floorboards when she had to go out and steal food. So she could make milk enough to keep me alive, but just alive. Not strong enough to cry, or we'd be caught. When she finally got me to a doctor, he advised her to just let me go. That I wasn't... I wasn't strong enough to survive. But when she absolutely insisted, he picked me up by my feet and held me up like a chicken and said, "If she tries to lift her head, then there's hope." And you know what I did, Martha? I lifted my head. That's what I'm asking you to do now. Lift your head and fight for yourself, for God's sakes! Go out there and face that woman.

    • Crazy credits
      The title appears around the 30-minute mark.
    • Connections
      Featured in Chris Stuckmann Quick Movie Reviews: TIFF 2020: Pieces of a Woman, One Night in Miami, Nomadland (2020)
    • Soundtracks
      Untitled #3
      Written by Orri P. Dyrason (as Orri Pall Dyrason), Kjartan Sveinsson, Jon Thor Birgisson, Georg Holm

      Performed by Sigur Rós

      Courtesy of Krunk Records/ADA UK

      By arrangement with ADA Licensing, a division of Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

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    • Release date
      • January 7, 2021 (United Kingdom)
    • Countries of origin
      • Canada
      • Hungary
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Fragmentos de una mujer
    • Filming locations
      • Canada
    • Production companies
      • BRON Studios
      • Creative Wealth Media Finance
      • Little Lamb
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 6 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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