Kornél mundruczó 2020 drama “Women’s Pieces” boasts one of the best performances of her year and will leave you emotionally squeezed. At the beginning of the film, there is an extended, unbroken sequence in which Martha Weiss (Vanessa Kirby) goes home. Their ordinary midwife is not available, so they have to rely on a last minute replacement called Eva (Molly Parker). Birth is fast, but it’s not easy. The baby’s heart rate begins to decrease in the middle of one March contractions. Eva says to call 911, but the baby comes immediately. The child is fine at first, but then …
Watch, the movie is very disturbing and looks directly at some of the greatest pain that parents may face. After the baby’s death, Martha and her husband, Sean (Shie Leboeuf), pass through the hell. She tries to accept the reality of the situation, while Sean buries her depression in cocaine and things. It is said that EVA should be eliminated in court for her negligence. With all the pain, Martha tries to contact her alienated mother (Ellen Burstyn), who is aging and requiring care. “Woman’s pieces” have all the heart -breaking, complex emotions that the movie can contain. It’s painful, so painful to watch. It is rare that drama can be so unpleasant and effective.
Thank you Kirby’s performance – her best so far – “Woman’s pieces” are rescued from the fact that it is just a piece of Miserabilist cinema. She puts a very humane face in Martha’s suffering, saving her from a cliché martyr. “Pieces” are not just injured, it’s about the shield that Martha puts on. She can mourn, but she needs the world to move with her, and only a few seem capable of moving at her emotional pace.
Vanessa Kirby received an Oscar nomination for women’s pieces
Not every critic could get behind the suffering of the “woman’s pieces”, with a number of feelings that its aggressive sadness is slightly more than a hollow. Richard Brody by writing The New YorkerIt was particularly harsh, writing that the film’s efforts to grandeous seem to be his name “Rikible”. Candace Frederick by writing hellIt was believed that the subject justifies much more emotional and bureaucratically complex questions, but this was instead aimed by the personal, ultimately hurting the film as a whole. Martha’s heroine is often told that she is too “cold” after the baby’s death, and Frederick seems to at least to some extent agree. In total, “women’s pieces” have a 76% confirmation assessment of rotten tomatoes based on 240 reports.
It should be noted that “women’s pieces” are something directed by Kornél Mundruczó and his wife, the screenwriter Kata Wéber actually went through. The couple experienced an abortion that inspired Wéber to write a stage play “Women”, which was later adapted to the Netflix movie. “Woman’s pieces” was the first English Fulm, which Mundruczó led, and had seven features in his native Hungary. His next movie “The Sea” is currently packing his post -processing and will feature star Amy Adam, Dan Levy and Jenny Slate.
Meanwhile, Kirby was praised worldwide for her acting. In addition to earning the Oscar nomination for the best actress, he was nominated by the British Academy, Golden Globe and Critics’ Selection Awards. Kirby won the Volpi Cup for the best actress at the Venice International Film Festival. This is the most widely praised performance of her screen career. Kirby can move from strong drama to fluffy action players With apleasing, appearing in some of the last films “Mission: impossible”. She also brings a lot of emotional heft on the screen New Marvel image: “Fantastic four: first steps”.
