Mexico City.
Convinced that give birth to your first child at home, with the supervision of a midwife and with proper care, is the best option, Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia LaBeouf) He embarks on this hopeful adventure that ends in tragedy.
Into the Fragments of a woman (Pieces of a woman), found in the first of the most watched on Netflix Honduras, all the couple’s dreams and illusions are shattered when the baby fails to survive.
Then the guilt, the complaints and the family troubles start, not only between them, but with the midwife Eve (Molly Parker) and the protagonist’s mother, Elizabeth (Ellen Burstyn).
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“It was a great adventure to be able 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 others?
“I read the script in an hour, the treatment so precise and clear seemed fabulous to me … I did a lot of research with midwives, with mothers who lost children in situations and I had an idea about something I wanted to convey: compassion ”, Counted Kirby in video conferencing.
Directed by the Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó and written by his sentimental partner, Kata Wéber, the film has a strong recommendation recommendation, since Kirby won the Fox Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, and both she and Burstyn are selected as sincere competitors for the Golden Globe and Oscar.
“Vanessa and I did a great dumbbell, And I like the connection we were able to make as a mother and daughter. Talking about a situation like losing a child, putting it as a reason to understand all the pain of a family, was something that just captivated me, “Burstyn said.
Both Mundruczó and Wéber explained in the presentation of this film that the general idea was based on a personal experience of a miscarriage that she suffered years ago.
“He was the one who discovered some annotations I made about that situation and urged me to write something. I didn’t know at first what it would be, it wasn’t my intention to write a screenplay or a plot for the theater. First I made it for the theater and then I adapted it for the cinema and I specified it as it was, “said Wéber.
“I’m a little overwhelmed by the amount of expectations that are generated around the film, but I’m also excited because the interest of any filmmaker is that they see their work. I’m a storyteller, not everyone has an explanation, we just present them and here it is,” he said. Mundruczó added.
And if international critics have pointed out anything about the film, it’s the nearly 25-minute sequence they made. Vanessa, Shia and Molly, to recreate the baby’s failed arrival.
“It was a very well choreographed job, with a very close way of giving it a note of intimacy and loneliness. I think the great achievement is these great actors we have in the film,” admitted the director.
Thus, with this introduction, those involved must question their future and present. Martha has to deal with the pain of losing her, the disagreements with her husband and the pressure exerted by her mother to take legal action against the midwife.
In addition, she is confused by her ideals and does not know where to sail, because she feels that everything she is living in at the moment is in vain.
“I think that in these difficult times, so complicated that we live, pain and loss are two experiences that teach us, but confuse us and we do not know what they can offer us in the long run. And maybe the film will lead you to understand a little bit about how we can open up to pain and accept it so that it doesn’t hurt so much, “he says. Kirby.
Fragments of a woman.. has the executive production of Martin Scorsese.