Synopsis
A heartbreaking home birth leaves a woman grappling with the profound emotional fallout, isolated from her partner and family by a chasm of grief.
2020 Directed by Kornél Mundruczó
A heartbreaking home birth leaves a woman grappling with the profound emotional fallout, isolated from her partner and family by a chasm of grief.
Vanessa Kirby Shia LaBeouf Ellen Burstyn Iliza Shlesinger Benny Safdie Sarah Snook Molly Parker Steven McCarthy Tyrone Benskin Frank Schorpion Harry Standjofski Domenic Di Rosa Jimmie Fails Juliette Casagrande Gayle Garfinkle Vanessa Smythe Nick Walker Sean Tucker Alain Dahan Joelle Jérémie Leisa Reid
Aaron Ryder Martin Scorsese Kevin Turen Sam Levinson Viktória Petrányi Aaron L. Gilbert Andria Spring Jason Cloth Stuart Manashil Steven Thibault Richard McConnell Harrison Kreiss Ashley Levinson Katia Washington Suraj Maraboyina Adam Somer
Bron Studios Little Lamb Productions Creative Wealth Media Finance Proton Cinema Sikelia Productions
그녀의 조각들, Egy nő darabjai
when the title card comes up and you realise that you've been holding your breath the entire time
they had benny safdie hit the vape and for what. what did that add. that’s all im thinking about
Seeing Shia LaBeouf's problematic ass being cast in movies in 2020-2021 feels like Jeffrey Star’s career
Unnecessary
vanessa kirby burps for 30 minutes and she still looks ethereal it’s not FAIR she has too much power
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó and starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Benny Safdie and Ellen Burstyn, Pieces of a Woman is an incredibly grounded and intensely personal storyline that follows a young mother's home birth that ends in tragedy.
This is, completely, Vanessa Kirby's film. She's utterly outstanding in the leading role with her performance standing out as one of the best I've seen in quite a while. She draws us inside Martha's mental state to the point it feels like we're sitting inside her mind looking out at the world through her eyes. She conveys the confusion, anger, and desolation of what her character is going through with immense force that, sitting there in the pick black, stunned me to…
Despite liking director Kornél Mundruczó's White God, there were too many problematic things about this film. Ellen Burstyn plays the mother of Martha (Vanessa Kirby). Despite giving us top tier acting, the character: rich bitch who likes to blame everyone was repulsive and entitled. Vanessa Kirby gives a performance of a lifetime. In the right circumstances, this movie could have propelled her even further.
However, co-star Shia LaBeouf's presence is repulsive from start to finish. In real life, several of LaBeouf's partners have claimed he is abusive. In addition, LaBeouf's character sickening puts his hand on Martha's leg and tries to force her hand on his member, before sticking his hand down her pants. In addition, we are forced to…
I like to ask myself after watching a movie “Would this movie exist if it wasn’t trying to win any awards?” There simple answer with Pieces of a Woman is no. Despite its heartbreaking themes and amazingly difficult dramatic performances, something about it feels empty. It’s as if you watched these characters go through pain without reason. I get that this movie is a vehicle for the actors to really do their thing but if you wanna make a truly great movie you gotta have more meat to it. The story is pretty one-note and none of the characters feel multi-layered, leaving the movie to have no other reason to exist besides getting Vanessa Kirby (and maybe Ellen Burstyn) an Oscar.
35
Needlessly exhausting. Felt like I was being screamed at the entire time, but with little to no nuance in the performances or formal choices, it feels like a lot of work with little payoff.
Pieces of a Woman is probably one of the worst movies I've seen in quite a while. It's a Lifetime movie wrapped with arthouse tropes, featuring good scenes that are simply too scarce too little. Considering its deeply uncomfortable subject matter, it has all the advantages to be an emotional hard hitter, only for it to end up as one of the most tedious experiences to sit through this Oscar season.
Pieces of a Woman starts with its infamous one-shot birth scene, which is relatively the best sequence out of its over 2-hour runtime. We watch Vanessa Kirby as she goes through the agony of giving birth, which obviously is not something Kirby herself has gone through in real life…
A lot of emotions run through this movie. Vanessa Kirby's performance was outstanding and so was Shia's. If only Shia had not shown his tiny penis, I would have given this five stars. What did he think this was, a Game of Thrones episode?!
Really tough watch, especially the first half hour, which ends up being the most striking part of the film. Fantastic performances all round, especially Kirby and Burstyn. Shore’s score features some beautiful moments, especially the waltzy track. I liked how the narrative was structured around a nuanced portrayal of dealing with grief and trauma. I felt that the ‘legal battle’ aspect of the plot was the weakest element, and I think I would’ve liked more time focusing on a deeper dive into character. I felt that because the amazing first 30 mins is almost an epigraph to the main story, they didn’t want to push the runtime of the film over two hours in total, and I felt that certain sections of the story and characters could have been fleshed out more and explored with an extra half hour. Overall, I find myself only having minor gripes though.
Kornél Mundruczó and partner Kata Wéber translate the unimaginable grief and despair of going through a miscarriage into a very emotional and effective film in their first fully English-language feature.
The main highlight comes early on with its long take home birth scene. Over 20 minutes long, it's very powerful and uncomfortable. You want the camera to cut away while you simultaneously admire Mundruczó for refusing to do so. The emotional impact of what you just saw fully hits you when he ends the scene with the title card. The rest of the film is good but never quite reaches the same heights as that scene. The only real letdown comes in the courtroom finale, which feels both unoriginal and…
Since I watched "The Crown" season 1 and 2 I fell in love with Vanessa Kirby's acting skills as Princess Margaret. Pieces of a Woman is a film that has come to confirm that Vanessa is one of the Greatest actresses of our generation. She deserves that Oscar nomination.
Pieces of a Woman is remarkable drama with an amazing performance by Vanessa Kirby. She brings a very emotional and heartbreaking character suffering from the loss of her child. It's hard to relate or imagine but the way she's handling it is Oscar-worthy. Shia Lebeouf and Ellen Burstyn are great side characters and strengthen the overall easy plot. It's a must see movie but don't expect a groundbreaking one.
L'année commence fort avec cet horrible PIECES OF A WOMAN. Prototype du film de festival avec des sabots énormes, qui basent tout sur de la PERFORMANCE et du symbolisme. La fameuse scène de l'accouchement dont tout le monde parle m'a écoeuré, c'était que de la perofmance technique et d'interprétations, il n'y avait aucune compassion pour le sort de son personnage. Et soi disant cest la meilleure scene du film alors je vous laisse imaginer ma peine face au reste du métrage qui est atrocement écrit(les DIALOGUES)
Je partais défaitiste avec le film ça a sûrement un peu joué aussi
A film with a heavy heart. Vanessa Kirby gives a great performance. I didn't buy the climatic monologue at the trial. After such a measured pace (which I loved) it really felt too much like a "movie solution". Also Shia and Sarah Snook in those roles feel a bit typecasted.
The story of a woman and her family as a whole dealing with birth that doesn't exactly according to plan. Kornél Mundruczó's 7th film, the Hungarian director known for works like Delta, Tender Son and White God. The film's opening is extraordinary as it shows the process of child birth in the first 30 minutes. From then, veers off into a family drama breakdown which is still well made but not as interesting. Till the film reconnects, towards the end, to its true strengths and we feel again the mother's emotions again and the film's beauty. Amazing performance by Vanessa Kirby as she really gave an incredible performance.
There was a rawness to it that was interesting at times, but lacked narrative structure, the part after the birth was a long downfall. The prosthetic belly looked too obviously fake to me. Both the mother's and daughter's monologues around which there was a lot of hype felt underwhelming at best, even forced, awkward. Let me not get started with the way they wrote that one Black guy. I would be perplexed by the raving reviews and the Oscar, if Kirby was not a conventionally attractive blonde white woman.
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