TIFF 2020: Pieces of a Woman, One Night in Miami, Nomadland

What is the name of the song playing on the nightclub?

I saw the date of Oct 9th as Martha's return to work. I didn't catch the date of the birth. Did anyone catch the birth date? Was it at the beginning of the film, and I missed it?

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And I'm ashamed of me. That I wasn't a good enough mother to teach you how to stand up and speak for yourself, for God's sakes. And to deal with this. Like my mother taught me. After my father went into the ghetto, my mother found a shack, an empty shack, that she went into and gave birth to me. Without any help at all. She stashed me under the floorboards when she had to go out and steal food. So she could make milk enough to keep me alive, but just alive. Not strong enough to cry, or we'd be caught. When she finally got me to a doctor, he advised her to just let me go. That I wasn't... I wasn't strong enough to survive. But when she absolutely insisted, he picked me up by my feet and held me up like a chicken and said, "If she tries to lift her head, then there's hope." And you know what I did, Martha? I lifted my head. That's what I'm asking you to do now. Lift your head and fight for yourself, for God's sakes! Go out there and face that woman.

Ellen Burstyn and Vanessa Kirby in Pieces of a Woman (2020)

Ellen Burstyn, Kornél Mundruczó, and Vanessa Kirby in Pieces of a Woman (2020)

  VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 05: Vanessa Kirby walks the red carpet ahead of the movie "Pieces of a woman" at the 77th Venice Film Festival on September 05, 2020 in Venice, Italy.

Vanessa Kirby at an event for Pieces of a Woman (2020)

Vanessa Kirby

Shia LaBeouf

Ellen Burstyn

Kata Wéber

When a young mother&apos;s home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

Kornél Mundruczó

Pieces of a Woman

This was a struggle

I almost never watch movies like these -- mega-drama releases during Oscar season. But in my first year reviewing on Letterboxd, movies like this appear so consistently in the &quot;Popular with Friends&quot; feed I find myself drawn to them.

And after forcing my self to watch PIeces of a Woman knowing I&apos;d struggle, I think I&apos;m going with my gut next time around.

I don&apos;t really have much to add to what&apos;s been said before. The birth scene is heart wrenching. The acting is phenomenal. Shia Lebouf&apos;s performance was so excellent I kept wanting to slap myself in the face reminding myself that he&apos;s a complete asshole.

But the bulk of the movie after the first act is just painful to sit through. Not because of the depressing subject matter. Nothing really gels.

Overall it felt like a jigsaw puzzle that was half completed.

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I almost never watch movies like these -- mega-drama releases during Oscar season. But in my first year reviewing on Letterboxd, movies like this appear so consistently in the "Popular with Friends" feed I find myself drawn to them.

And after forcing my self to watch PIeces of a Woman knowing I'd struggle, I think I'm going with my gut next time around.

I don't really have much to add to what's been said before. The birth scene is heart wrenching. The acting is phenomenal. Shia Lebouf's performance was so excellent I kept wanting to slap myself in the face reminding myself that he's a complete asshole.

But the bulk of the movie after the first act is just painful to sit through. Not because of the depressing subject matter. Nothing really gels.

Overall it felt like a jigsaw puzzle that was half completed.

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

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