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The Globe and Mail Published January 13, 2021 Benjamin Loeb/The Associated Press Vanessa Kirby is that actress. The one you’ve been wondering about, who plays Princess Margaret in the first two seasons of The Crown and the White Widow in the In Pieces of a Woman, a home birth turns harrowing for Martha and Sean (Kirby and Shia LaBeouf) and their midwife, Eva (Molly Parker). Screenwriter Kata Weber and director Kornel Mundruczo plunge us into the action with a seemingly unbroken 20-minute take that rubs the actors and viewers raw. Kirby loved it. She’s compelled by the tough stuff, th...

The new Netflix film 'Pieces of a Woman', with its searingly accurate portrayal of neonatal death, starring Vanessa Kirby, will create further talking points for those with a shared – but often silent – trauma, says Pippa Vosper.

Jan. 7, 2021 5:52 pm ET ‘Pieces of a Woman,” streaming on Netflix, poses a startling question with shattering force. What does a woman do after her pregnancy has ended in a death instead of a new life? Vanessa Kirby is Martha, a Boston woman whose home birth goes disastrously wrong. No mainstream production has ever depicted a childbirth like this one, and Ms. Kirby’s performance is remarkable—not only when Martha is in extremis but once she’s back in what used to be her life, mourning her loss as she surveys the world around her like a benumbed alien from a ...

Can a film be good if it’s almost unwatchable? In Pieces of a Woman, Vanessa Kirby proves that it can

This is our first newsletter of 2021, and it has already been quite a year. The events of this past week surpass any thoughts on movies at the moment. I feel I have likely said this before, but there is no one better at sorting through the cultural confusion of a moment like Wednesday than Times TV critic Lorraine Ali. As she wrote, “Wednesday’s violent attack cannot be seen as yet another preparatory ‘stress test’ for democracy. It was the real thing. We, as a nation, are not immune to the crises in which we are so often intervening overseas, parachuting in to save the day — and fr...