Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Director:
Kornél Mundruczó
Actors:
Martha
Sean
Elizabeth
Anita
Chris
Genre:
Drama
Rating:
(60’443 votes)
(60’443 votes)
Quotes:
« Elizabeth: And I'm ashamed of me. That I wasn't a good enough mother to teach you how to stand up and speak for yourself, for God's sakes. And to deal with this. Like my mother taught me. After my father went into the ghetto, my mother found a shack, an empty shack, that she went into and gave birth to me. Without any help at all. She stashed me under the floorboards when she had to go out and steal food. So she could make milk enough to keep me alive, but just alive. Not strong enough to cry, or we'd be caught. When she finally got me to a doctor, he advised her to just let me go. That I wasn't… I wasn't strong enough to survive. But when she absolutely insisted, he picked me up by my feet and held me up like a chicken and said, "If she tries to lift her head, then there's hope." And you know what I did, Martha? I lifted my head. That's what I'm asking you to do now. Lift your head and fight for yourself, for God's sakes! Go out there and face that woman.
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« Lane: Yes, how did you feel holding your baby you had just given birth to?
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« Martha: She smelled like an apple.
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« Elizabeth: [to Sean] I've always been meaning to ask you: how is it you can build a bridge, when you can't tell time?
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Trailer:
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Runtime:126 minutes
Plots:
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.
Martha and Sean are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends in unimaginable tragedy. Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for Martha, who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with her husband and her domineering mother, along with the publicly vilified midwife, whom she must face in court. A deeply personal, searing, and ultimately transcendent story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
With their first baby due any minute, rough-around-the-edges builder, Sean, and his young wife, Martha, are on cloud nine. Instead, after a domestic white-knuckle ordeal, tragedy strikes. And in the following months, Martha and Sean will experience an insidious roller coaster of corrosive emotions, utterly defenceless to grapple with loss. More and more, as alienation, strained family relationships, and the pressing need for answers and closure start to define their lives, once-blissful Sean and Martha find themselves caught in a self-destructive spiral. Can time heal all wounds?
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