Pieces of a Woman

2020

Action / Drama

75
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 84% · 240 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 84% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 59603 59.6K

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Plot summary

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 Photo
Kornél Mundruczó

Top cast

Vanessa Kirby Photo
Vanessa Kirby as Martha
Shia LaBeouf Photo
Shia LaBeouf as Sean
Sarah Snook Photo
Sarah Snook as Suzanne
Molly Parker Photo
Molly Parker as Eva
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24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 10
1.14 GB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles ar   pt   cz   dk   de   gr   us   es   fi   fr   il   hr   hu   id   it   ja   kr   ms   nl   no   pl   ro   ru   sv   th   tr   vi   cn  
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2 hr 7 min
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English 5.1
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24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 7
2.35 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles ar   pt   cz   dk   de   gr   us   es   fi   fr   il   hr   hu   id   it   ja   kr   ms   nl   no   pl   ro   ru   sv   th   tr   vi   cn  
24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by greenheart 7 / 10

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.
Reviewed by repojack 6 / 10

This was a struggle

I almost never watch movies like these -- mega-drama releases during Oscar season. But in my first year reviewing on Letterboxd, movies like this appear so consistently in the "Popular with Friends" feed I find myself drawn to them.And after forcing my self to watch PIeces of a Woman knowing I'd struggle, I think I'm going with my gut next time around.I don't really have much to add to what's been said before. The birth scene is heart wrenching. The acting is phenomenal. Shia Lebouf's performance was so excellent I kept wanting to slap myself in the face reminding myself that he's a complete asshole.But the bulk of the movie after the first act is just painful to sit through. Not because of the depressing subject matter. Nothing really gels.Overall it felt like a jigsaw puzzle that was half completed.
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