Mexico City.
Convinced that giving birth to your first child at homeunder the guidance of a midwife and with appropriate care, this is the best option, Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) They embark on this hopeful adventure that ends in tragedy.
In Fragments of a woman (Pieces of a woman), found in ranked first among the most watched on Netflix Honduras, all the dreams and illusions of the couple are shattered when the baby does not survive.
That’s when the guilt, complaints, and family troubles set in, not just between them, but with the midwife Eve (Molly Parker) and with the protagonist’s mother, Elizabeth (Ellen Burstyn).
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“It was a great adventure to create all this intimate atmosphere, so familiar with the cast, and my main mission as an actress was to ask myself how my character feels and how he feels about the others?
“I read the script in an hour, the treatment so precise and clear seemed fantastic … I did a lot of research with midwives, with mothers who have lost children in situations, and I had an idea of something I wanted to convey: compassion.” , counted Kirby in video conference.
Directed by the Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó, and written by his sentimental partner, Kata Wéber, the film lands with strong credentials as Kirby won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, and both she and Burstyn are singled out as candid contenders for the Golden Globe and Oscar.
“Vanessa and I made a great barbell, and I love that bond we have been able to build as a mother and daughter. Talking about a situation like the loss of a baby, describing it as the reason for understanding all the pain of a family, it was something that just captivated me, ‘Burstyn said.
Both Mundruczó and Wéber explained in the presentation of this film that the overall idea was based on a personal experience of a miscarriage she had suffered years ago.
“He was the one who discovered some notes I had made about that situation that prompted me to write something. We didn’t know what it would be at first, I didn’t mean to write a script or a plot for theater. First we did it for theater and then we adapted it for cinema, and we specified it as it was, ”said Wéber.
“The amount of expectations that are raised around the film kind of overwhelms me, but it also fascinates me because the interest of every filmmaker is that they see his work. I’m a storyteller, they don’t all have an explanation, we just present them and here she is, “added Mundruczó.
And if the international critics have emphasized anything about the film, it’s the nearly 25-minute sequence shot they’ve achieved Vanessa, Shia and Molly, to mimic the baby’s failed arrival.
“It was a very well-choreographed job, with a path that was very close to giving a touch of intimacy and solitude. I think the big achievement is the great actors we have in the film,” acknowledged the director.
With this introduction, those concerned must therefore question their future and their present. Martha has to deal with the pain of her loss, the disagreements with her husband and the pressure her mother exerts to take legal action against the midwife.
In addition, she is confused by her ideals and does not know where to navigate, because she feels that everything she is living right now is for nothing.
“I think in these troubled times, so complicated that we live, pain and loss are two experiences that teach us, but they confuse us and we don’t know what they can give us in the long run. And maybe the movie will make you bring up a little about how we can open ourselves up to pain and accept it so it doesn’t hurt that much, ”he says Kirby.
Fragments of a woman.. has the executive production of Martin Scorsese.