Pieces of a Woman | Film Review
I remember ticking the 'remind me' box on Netflix, so that I could watch this as soon as it came out. And that was based solely on how interesting the premise was. When a home birth ends in tragedy, a woman finds herself picking up the pieces of a life that she no longer recognises. Of course I knew that this film was going to be full of emotion and grief, but it's really hard to go into the film expecting the things that it hits you with. The first scene in and of itself contains so much. It's half an hour of a harrowing, heart-breaking, almost chilling situation. But from an external, critical perspective, it is so well done in terms of writing, directing and acting. It goes from joy to despair so quickly that you almost get whiplash, and this scene is amazingly powerful even without the rest of the film backing it up. The portrayal of grief was really interesting, mainly because we got to see it from the point of view of so many characters. Speaking of characters, th...