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By Katey Rich
There’s a moment halfway through Pieces of a Woman reminiscent of Princess Margaret, the character Vanessa Kirby played perfectly in The Crown. In his mother’s space for the reunion of a circle of relatives with a still indefinite later purpose, Kirby’s character Martha wanders around the room, listening intently to the mediocre verbal exchange around him and waiting for the right time to jump. She’s lacerating and ruthless, a wounded woman who wants to harm others. Having endured a tragedy, Martha’s pain makes her the focal point of the play as much as Margaret’s fame did.
Kirby, who has just won the most productive actress award at the Venice Film Festival for this role, excels in stone silence, and Pieces of a Woman has many, as Martha confronts her husband Sean (Shia LaBeouf), her authoritarian mother (Ellen Burstyn). , even strangers on the bus. But the film’s undeniable climax is its bravery opening series, which relies on Kirby to bring everything back to the surface: a unique (apparently) 23-minute delivery scene that ends in devastation. I really don’t know where to go from there, however, for Kirby, it’s just the beginning of some other career-defining performance, and probably the moment of a long series.
Director Kornél Mundrucz and editor Kata Weber (who percentage a “film for” credit) don’t spend much time with Martha and Sean before the film’s central tragedy begins to unfold, just enough to understand the basics. Martha works in an elegant office; Sean is running on a bridge structure site that will be an incredibly visual metaphor throughout the film; Martha’s mother, Elizabeth, bought them a car, which is just one more thing sean wants, but they seem pretty happy and, when Martha starts working, her bond becomes unwavering, until, of course, the worst happens to shake him. .
After the death of her newborn daughter, Martha retreats in a cold resolution, returns to the workplace and makes plans to donate the baby’s body to science. Mientras tanto, Sean se une a Elizabeth para registrar una denuncia contra la partera Eva (Molly Parker, discreto y maravilloso), aportando un diseño judicial a una película que en realidad no lo quiere. Fortunately, there are few scenes of ugly crying and “Why, God, why” that accompany so much pain in the movies; instead, jumping from several weeks and months at a time, the film looks here and there with Martha and Sean as their dates evaporate. It’s an effective way to paint a long grieving process, but it also reduces your appointments to a transcendental and unfortunate selection. for a couple we didn’t know much about at first. LaBeouf, as usual, brings out Sean’s pain with pain and rage, while Martha hides behind cat-eye makeup and fabulous clothes, her wound is only noticeable at the time of looking.
Pieces of a Woman has an ending to say instead of showing, Elizabeth admitting to Sean that she never liked it until we really understood their relationship, or Sean intensifies a match with insults that appear outside her character This extra highlights the series of unbearable childbirth, when Benjamin Loeb’s camera passes in front of Parker’s worried eyes , LaBeouf’s tight frame language or Kirby’s throat letting out the guttural groans of a woman who thinks the paintings are going to be the most painful. This long, beautiful and heartbreaking scene unearths an invigorating cinematic language for such a euphemized procedure; until the tragic conclusion, it is a remarkably realistic birth for a narrative film, in all its crude wonder. It’s a relief at the end of the scene, yet it’s also a little embarrassing to see this lightning fall back into a more modest glow.
That is, with the exception of Kirthrough, who even in Martha’s coldness, maintains the vivacity of this ordinary scene and gives life to a woman whom the film defines almost entirely through tragedy. Pieces of a Woman ends up with a solution note directly similar to motherhood In the first place, I was disappointed that they couldn’t find another way to perform the character, but then I found out I knew almost nothing else about it. It’s just that Kirthrough made me think I’d done it.
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