Pieces of a Woman (2020)

Very good, though every bit as sad as we expected. Vanessa Kirby is brilliant as Martha, whose home birth goes awry. Shia LaBeouf is terrific as her tightly wound husband Sean, as is Ellen Burstyn as her stiff mother.

Director Kornél Mundruczó and screenwriter Kata Wéber are Hungarian. They had a similar experience as a couple and writing the screenplay helped Wéber heal.

The lovely classical score by Howard Shore can be streamed on Apple Music and Spotify, to name a few. There are some songs as well.

LaBeouf was last blogged for Honey Boy, Burstyn for Lovely, Still, and Shore for Denial.

Kirby is best known for playing the youngest Princess Margaret in 17 episodes of The Crown. Mundruczó and Wéber are new to me.

Rotten Tomatoes' critics are fragmented, averaging 76%, while its audiences are more wholly in favor at 88. The movie was made for Netflix and we streamed it a week and a half ago.