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In Pieces of a Woman, Vanessa Kirby plays Martha, a first-time mother who loses her baby daughter at birth. Based on the experiences of screenwriter Kata Wéber and her director partner Kornél Mundruczó, the narrative explores Martha's journey through grief, forgiveness and identity, as her mother Elizabeth (Ellen…

Vanessa Kirby’s harrowing and incredibly challenging Pieces of a Woman role earned her an Oscar nomination on Monday morning, and in response, a self-deprecating Kirby drew attention to all the bereaved women who helped her research her character of Martha, a woman who loses her baby at birth. She also paid tribute to…

This morning, actress Vanessa Kirby received her first Golden Globe nomination for her shattering turn in Netflix drama, Pieces of a Woman. "I feel, more than anything, just so honored that this was my first lead role," she told Deadline, "and that this is the film that I've been nominated for." In the "deeply…

Back in 1971, when Ellen Burstyn was first catapulted to movie stardom with The Last Picture Show, she received a letter. "It was from a young man in Texas who told me that he was suicidal," she says. The man wrote that he'd decided to see one final movie before he killed himself: The Last Picture Show. And that her…

One of the most intensely personal entries in this year's festival season saw Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó and his writer partner Kata Wéber draw on their own private life for Pieces of a Woman, in which Vanessa Kirby plays Martha, a first-time mother whose daughter dies in childbirth. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as…

Vanessa Kirby won the SIlver Lion Best Actress prize at the 2020 Venice Film Festival for her searing and intensely raw performance as a woman whose life is torn apart after losing her baby in director Kornel Mundruczó’s gut-wrenching drama Pieces of a Woman. It begins streaming today on Netflix. This is a tough, not…

The specialty box office space entered 2021 with two fresh titles and one under-the-radar pic with Vertical Entertainment’s Shadow In The Cloud, Netflix’s Pieces of a Woman and Amazon Studios’ Herself. In general, reporting on box office numbers has been tricky ground considering circumstances and that will continue…

Netflix’s film and series music showcase Playlist launched Monday in the first of a series of conversations with composers and songwriters as well as performers. Here we moderated a conversation with the composers of Netflix’s suite of awards season movies: three-time Oscar winner Howard Shore who gave a moving…

Here’s the first trailer for Venice and Toronto drama Pieces Of A Woman, which was picked up by Netflix soon after its premiere in Italy. The streamer has set an online launch of January 7, 2021, and a ‘theatrical run’ from December 30. Vanessa Kirby scored strong notices – and Venice’s Best Actress prize – for her…

Netflix has closed a worldwide rights deal for the Kornél Mundruczó-directed drama Pieces Of A Woman. The film made its World Premiere at Venice and its Toronto premiere comes today at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. This is the second big festival deal for Netflix, as yesterday it acquired worldwide rights to the Halle…

Vanessa Kirby, who has two movies at the Venice Film Festival, today hit the Lido to talk about Kornél Mundruczó's Pieces Of A Woman. The film tells the story of a couple whose home birth goes devastatingly wrong, resulting in the loss of their child, and deeply explores the mother-daughter relationship. Ellen Burstyn…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of Venice Film Festival drama Pieces Of A Woman, which gets its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival today. Vanessa Kirby stars in the lead role along with Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger, Benny Safdie, Jimmy Fails and Ellen Burstyn. The movie is the…