Pieces of a Woman

Netflix | Release Date: December 30, 2020

6.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 113 Ratings

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Paper_KayJan 2, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So this lady decides that all those women in the history of humanity who died or lost their baby during childbirth didn't know that you can just decide to have the first baby without medical assistance if you want to and it will be so cute. Shocker, she spends the rest of the movie feeling really damn stupid about that decision. If only she's have read the statistics on odds of healthy delivery outside a hospital. Nice cinematography the first 30 minutes, tho.… Expand

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roscoeswaffleJan 11, 2021

I do believe that the phrase “aesthetically gimcrack” was coined with movies exactly like this in mind.

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Mauro_LanariFeb 8, 2021

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Good times when in films a difficult birth didn't last 24 minutes or 126: in "Ordet" (1955) Dreyer solves it off-screen summarizing it with a skimpy line of dialogue, "He's lying in the tub, in four pieces". Good times, about a(Mauro Lanari)
Good times when in films a difficult birth didn't last 24 minutes or 126: in "Ordet" (1955) Dreyer solves it off-screen summarizing it with a skimpy line of dialogue, "He's lying in the tub, in four pieces". Good times, about a century ago, when still half the children died before their parents. Good times when cinema could afford not to be always and in any case a smug bourgeois self-reflection (nowadays is there anymore an audience stranger to this target?). Then, from Bergman to Moretti, Palme d'Or at Cannes 2001, up to the recent silliness of Baumbach, only tearjerker movies for wealthy "right-thinking people" (?).… Expand

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