Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó makes his English-language debut with this drama about a couple devastated by the death of their baby
Martha and Sean Carson are an average Boston couple preparing for the arrival of their first child. They’ve got the ultrasound scans framed and mounted on the wall. They’ve got the big family car that Martha’s mother just bought them. Everything’s set; the future is all scripted. Then the home birth goes awry and everything else follows suit. Their well-ordered life becomes a veritable long day’s journey into night.
Pieces of a Woman is the first American picture from the talented Hungarian film-maker Kornél Mundruczó and showcases a pair of full-blooded performances from Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf. Back in his homeland, Mundruczó crafted such brilliantly strange and potent pictures as White God and Johanna. He’s jettisoned the strangeness en route, but appears...
Martha and Sean Carson are an average Boston couple preparing for the arrival of their first child. They’ve got the ultrasound scans framed and mounted on the wall. They’ve got the big family car that Martha’s mother just bought them. Everything’s set; the future is all scripted. Then the home birth goes awry and everything else follows suit. Their well-ordered life becomes a veritable long day’s journey into night.
Pieces of a Woman is the first American picture from the talented Hungarian film-maker Kornél Mundruczó and showcases a pair of full-blooded performances from Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf. Back in his homeland, Mundruczó crafted such brilliantly strange and potent pictures as White God and Johanna. He’s jettisoned the strangeness en route, but appears...
- 9/5/2020
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Martin Scorsese has joined the film team of Venice and Toronto-bound drama Pieces Of A Woman as an executive producer.
The movie is the first English-language film from acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó, the Cannes regular whose previous credits include Un Certain Regard winner White God.
The feature will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September followed by a Gala Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. Vanessa Kirby stars in the lead role along with Shia Labeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Schlesinger, Benny Safdie, Jimmy Fails and Ellen Burstyn.
The story follows Martha and Sean Carson (Kirby and Labeouf), a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably during a home birth at the hands of a flustered midwife (Parker), who faces charges of criminal negligence. The film is written by Kata Wéber based on a shared personal experience with Mundruczó.
The movie is the first English-language film from acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó, the Cannes regular whose previous credits include Un Certain Regard winner White God.
The feature will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September followed by a Gala Screening at the Toronto International Film Festival. Vanessa Kirby stars in the lead role along with Shia Labeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Schlesinger, Benny Safdie, Jimmy Fails and Ellen Burstyn.
The story follows Martha and Sean Carson (Kirby and Labeouf), a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably during a home birth at the hands of a flustered midwife (Parker), who faces charges of criminal negligence. The film is written by Kata Wéber based on a shared personal experience with Mundruczó.
- 8/18/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Martin Scorsese has given his seal of approval to Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, boarding the finished film, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month, as an executive producer.
Mundruczó’s English-language debut, Pieces of a Woman stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf as Martha and Sean Carson, a Boston couple whose lives are irrevocably disrupted when their home birth goes horribly wrong and their midwife (Molly Parker) is brought up on charges of criminal negligence. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as Martha’s domineering mother. The script, from Mundruczó’s collaborator and partner Kata Wéber, is based on ...
Mundruczó’s English-language debut, Pieces of a Woman stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf as Martha and Sean Carson, a Boston couple whose lives are irrevocably disrupted when their home birth goes horribly wrong and their midwife (Molly Parker) is brought up on charges of criminal negligence. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as Martha’s domineering mother. The script, from Mundruczó’s collaborator and partner Kata Wéber, is based on ...
- 8/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Scorsese has given his seal of approval to Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, boarding the finished film, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month, as an executive producer.
Mundruczó’s English-language debut, Pieces of a Woman stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf as Martha and Sean Carson, a Boston couple whose lives are irrevocably disrupted when their home birth goes horribly wrong and their midwife (Molly Parker) is brought up on charges of criminal negligence. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as Martha’s domineering mother. The script, from Mundruczó’s collaborator and partner Kata Wéber, is based on ...
Mundruczó’s English-language debut, Pieces of a Woman stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf as Martha and Sean Carson, a Boston couple whose lives are irrevocably disrupted when their home birth goes horribly wrong and their midwife (Molly Parker) is brought up on charges of criminal negligence. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as Martha’s domineering mother. The script, from Mundruczó’s collaborator and partner Kata Wéber, is based on ...
- 8/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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