2020 · drama
Pieces of a Woman
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó2h 7m2020
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.
Our read: Pieces of a Woman (2020) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
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