Rai Cinema International Distribution (Rcid) has taken international sales rights for “Of Dogs and Men,” an upcoming drama directed by Dani Rosenberg and produced by Ar Content. Rcid is introducing the film to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival’s market, where Variety has been given exclusive access to a first-look image.
Written by Rosenberg, Ori Avinoam and Itai Tamir, “Of Dogs and Men” is produced by two-time Academy Award nominee Alexander Rodnyansky of Ar Content and Itai Tamir (“Under a Blue Sun”) of Laila Films.
Set and filmed in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, the film follows 16-year-old Dar, who is returning to her kibbutz to look for her dog which was lost during the terror spree. She navigates the horrors inflicted upon the place and on the faces of people she meets while encountering the stark reality of the unfolding disaster beyond the fence. Between those...
Written by Rosenberg, Ori Avinoam and Itai Tamir, “Of Dogs and Men” is produced by two-time Academy Award nominee Alexander Rodnyansky of Ar Content and Itai Tamir (“Under a Blue Sun”) of Laila Films.
Set and filmed in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, the film follows 16-year-old Dar, who is returning to her kibbutz to look for her dog which was lost during the terror spree. She navigates the horrors inflicted upon the place and on the faces of people she meets while encountering the stark reality of the unfolding disaster beyond the fence. Between those...
- 5/22/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Israeli director Dani Rosenberg has set his next film with Alexander Rodnyansky’s Ar content. The film, which Rosenberg wrote with Ori Avinoam and Itai Tamir, is called Of Dogs and Men and Ar Content will produce with Tamier (Under a Blue Sun) of Laila Films.
The story follows 16-year-old Dar, who returns to her kibbutz to look for her dog who was lost during the terror attack of October 7. She navigates through the horrors etched upon the place and on the faces of people she meets while encountering the stark reality of the unfolding disaster beyond the fence. Between those who seek revenge and those whose faith in mankind remains unwavering, Dar will try to find her own voice.
Financed by Ar Content, Of Dogs and Men was shot in October and November 2023 in the kibbutzim lining the border with Gaza.
The story follows 16-year-old Dar, who returns to her kibbutz to look for her dog who was lost during the terror attack of October 7. She navigates through the horrors etched upon the place and on the faces of people she meets while encountering the stark reality of the unfolding disaster beyond the fence. Between those who seek revenge and those whose faith in mankind remains unwavering, Dar will try to find her own voice.
Financed by Ar Content, Of Dogs and Men was shot in October and November 2023 in the kibbutzim lining the border with Gaza.
- 5/16/2024
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Amy Adams has been cast in 'At the Sea'.The 49-year-old actress will appear in director Kornel Mundruczo's upcoming drama flick, which is due to enter production in Boston in June.The picture will follow the life of Laura (Adams) as she returns to her family at their beach holiday home after a long rehabilitation. While she adjusts to leaving her complicated life behind, the young woman is forced to face coming challenges without relying on a career that gave her fortune, fame and identity. Mondruczo will once again collaborate with writer Kata Weber after the pair worked together on the acclaimed films 'Pieces of a Woman' and 'White God'.The Hungarian filmmaker is producing the flick with Alexander Rodnyansky for Ar Content, Ryder Picture Company's Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett as well as Alex Lebovici and Jon Oakes for Hammerstone Studios.Amy portrayed the character...
- 4/25/2024
- by Alex Getting
- Bang Showbiz
Based on what I can gather about her new film, At the Sea, Amy Adams needs a pair of sandals and a stiff drink. Adams is teaming up with Kornel Mundruczó and Kata Wéber – the director and writer of Pieces of a Woman and White God – for a new drama about rejuvenation and adjusting to a life you had not planned to live.
According to Deadline, At the Sea finds Adams’s Laura returning to her family at their holiday beach house after a long rehabilitation. Once there, Laura must readjust to her new lot in life, still haunted by aspects she tried to leave behind. Staring down the barrel of a new chapter of her life, Laura must cope without her fame, fortune, and, of all things, her identity.
Adams, a six-time Academy Award-nominated actress, recently wrapped production on the sci-fi drama Klara and the Sun, which Taika Waititi directs.
According to Deadline, At the Sea finds Adams’s Laura returning to her family at their holiday beach house after a long rehabilitation. Once there, Laura must readjust to her new lot in life, still haunted by aspects she tried to leave behind. Staring down the barrel of a new chapter of her life, Laura must cope without her fame, fortune, and, of all things, her identity.
Adams, a six-time Academy Award-nominated actress, recently wrapped production on the sci-fi drama Klara and the Sun, which Taika Waititi directs.
- 4/24/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Amy Adams will star in At the Sea, the latest drama from Kornél Mundruczó, the Hungarian filmmaker behind acclaimed films Pieces of a Woman and White God.
Sea reteams Mundruczó with Kata Wéber, his frequent collaborator who wrote Pieces of a Woman and White God and penned the script for the latest feature.
Producing the drama are Ar Content’s Alexander Rodnyansky (Loveless), Ryder Picture Company’s Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett (Dumb Money, Arrival), Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (Barbarian) and Jon Oakes (Drive). Stuart Manashil and Viktória Petrányi, who produced Pieces of a Woman, are also producing along with Mundruczó.
Per the producers, the story follows the life of a woman who, after a long rehabilitation, returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind. Now she is forced to face the following next chapter of her...
Sea reteams Mundruczó with Kata Wéber, his frequent collaborator who wrote Pieces of a Woman and White God and penned the script for the latest feature.
Producing the drama are Ar Content’s Alexander Rodnyansky (Loveless), Ryder Picture Company’s Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett (Dumb Money, Arrival), Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici (Barbarian) and Jon Oakes (Drive). Stuart Manashil and Viktória Petrányi, who produced Pieces of a Woman, are also producing along with Mundruczó.
Per the producers, the story follows the life of a woman who, after a long rehabilitation, returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind. Now she is forced to face the following next chapter of her...
- 4/24/2024
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Amy Adams has been tapped to star in At the Sea, a new drama from Kornel Mundruczó and Kata Wéber — the director and writer of such acclaimed films as Pieces of a Woman and White God — as well as Hammerstone Studios, Ryder Picture Company and Ar Content.
Set to enter production in Boston in June, the film follows the life of Laura (Adams) after a long rehabilitation, as she returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind. Now she is forced to face the following next chapter of her life without the career that gave her fame, fortune and, most importantly, identity.
Pic will be produced by Alexander Rodnyansky of Ar Content, Stuart Manashil, Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett for Ryder Picture Company, Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici and Jon Oakes, and Viktória Petrányi and Mundruczó. Exec producers are Paul J. Diaz, Maria Breese of 3:33 Creative, Lee Broda of Lb Entertainment, Jeff Rice of Jeff Rice Films, and Michael Kupisk. Zsofi Oblath and Rachel Rubin will co-produce.
Ar Content, Paul J. Diaz, and Hammerstone Studios will finance the film, with WME Independent to rep domestic rights, Capstone Pictures handling international, and Sacker Law to oversee production legal.
A six-time Academy Award nominee, Adams most recently wrapped production on 3000 Pictures’ Klara and the Sun, the next film from Oscar winner Taika Waititi, which adapts the dystopian sci-fi story from Kazuo Ishiguro. Up next, she’ll be seen starring in Searchlight Pictures’ Nightbitch from filmmaker Marielle Heller, a dark comedy she also produced through her production company Bond Group Entertainment that hits theaters December 6.
A married director-writer pair out of Hungary, Mundruczó and Wéber are perhaps best known for their 2020 pregnancy drama Pieces of a Woman, which premiered in Venice and brought star Vanessa Kirby her first Oscar nomination following its release on Netflix. Prior to that, the duo collaborated on White God, which won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes in 2014; Jupiter’s Moon, which was nominated for the Palme d’Or; and Evolution, which also played the French festival. Separately, Mundruczó directed the pilot of the Apple TV+ limited series, The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried.
Most recently, Hammerstone produced the action thriller Boy Kills World starring Bill Skarsgård, which will release wide on April 26, and the horror-thriller Don’t Move, starring Kelsey Asbille and Finn Wittrock, for Netflix.
Ryder Picture Company has produced acclaimed titles like Dumb Money and Bruiser.
Ar Content is known for Cannes prize winners like 2019’s Beanpole, from filmmaker Kantemir Balagov, and 2021’s Unclenching the Fists from Kira Kovalenko.
Adams is represented by WME, Linden Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Mundruczó and Wéber are repped by United Agents and Novo.
Set to enter production in Boston in June, the film follows the life of Laura (Adams) after a long rehabilitation, as she returns to her family at their beach holiday home where she has to readjust to the complicated life she left behind. Now she is forced to face the following next chapter of her life without the career that gave her fame, fortune and, most importantly, identity.
Pic will be produced by Alexander Rodnyansky of Ar Content, Stuart Manashil, Aaron Ryder and Andrew Swett for Ryder Picture Company, Hammerstone Studios’ Alex Lebovici and Jon Oakes, and Viktória Petrányi and Mundruczó. Exec producers are Paul J. Diaz, Maria Breese of 3:33 Creative, Lee Broda of Lb Entertainment, Jeff Rice of Jeff Rice Films, and Michael Kupisk. Zsofi Oblath and Rachel Rubin will co-produce.
Ar Content, Paul J. Diaz, and Hammerstone Studios will finance the film, with WME Independent to rep domestic rights, Capstone Pictures handling international, and Sacker Law to oversee production legal.
A six-time Academy Award nominee, Adams most recently wrapped production on 3000 Pictures’ Klara and the Sun, the next film from Oscar winner Taika Waititi, which adapts the dystopian sci-fi story from Kazuo Ishiguro. Up next, she’ll be seen starring in Searchlight Pictures’ Nightbitch from filmmaker Marielle Heller, a dark comedy she also produced through her production company Bond Group Entertainment that hits theaters December 6.
A married director-writer pair out of Hungary, Mundruczó and Wéber are perhaps best known for their 2020 pregnancy drama Pieces of a Woman, which premiered in Venice and brought star Vanessa Kirby her first Oscar nomination following its release on Netflix. Prior to that, the duo collaborated on White God, which won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes in 2014; Jupiter’s Moon, which was nominated for the Palme d’Or; and Evolution, which also played the French festival. Separately, Mundruczó directed the pilot of the Apple TV+ limited series, The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried.
Most recently, Hammerstone produced the action thriller Boy Kills World starring Bill Skarsgård, which will release wide on April 26, and the horror-thriller Don’t Move, starring Kelsey Asbille and Finn Wittrock, for Netflix.
Ryder Picture Company has produced acclaimed titles like Dumb Money and Bruiser.
Ar Content is known for Cannes prize winners like 2019’s Beanpole, from filmmaker Kantemir Balagov, and 2021’s Unclenching the Fists from Kira Kovalenko.
Adams is represented by WME, Linden Entertainment, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Mundruczó and Wéber are repped by United Agents and Novo.
- 4/24/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Martin Scorsese Joins ‘Evolution’ As Exec Producer
Martin Scorsese is joining Kornél Mundruczó’s Cannes title Evolution as an executive producer. This marks his second collaboration with the filmmaker and screenwriter Kata Wéber after Oscar nominee Pieces Of A Woman. “Every new movie by Mundruczó and Wéber comes as a welcome shock to the senses for the viewer and for the filmmaker – they never stop advancing into uncharted territory. With Evolution, they find a way to dramatize the movement of time itself, the ways that we remember and the ways that we forget,” said Scorsese. The pic, which explores a family’s experiences from World War II to present-day Berlin, had its world premiere at on the Croisette earlier this year. It stars Lili Monori (Delta), Annamária Láng (Nothing Really Happened), Goya Rego, Padmé Hamdemir and Jule Böwe (The Silence). The movie is produced by Viola Fügen, Michael Weber and Viktória Petrányi,...
Martin Scorsese is joining Kornél Mundruczó’s Cannes title Evolution as an executive producer. This marks his second collaboration with the filmmaker and screenwriter Kata Wéber after Oscar nominee Pieces Of A Woman. “Every new movie by Mundruczó and Wéber comes as a welcome shock to the senses for the viewer and for the filmmaker – they never stop advancing into uncharted territory. With Evolution, they find a way to dramatize the movement of time itself, the ways that we remember and the ways that we forget,” said Scorsese. The pic, which explores a family’s experiences from World War II to present-day Berlin, had its world premiere at on the Croisette earlier this year. It stars Lili Monori (Delta), Annamária Láng (Nothing Really Happened), Goya Rego, Padmé Hamdemir and Jule Böwe (The Silence). The movie is produced by Viola Fügen, Michael Weber and Viktória Petrányi,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Anuj Radia
- Deadline Film + TV
"You raised me... to be suspicious of the world." The Match Factory has released an early promo trailer for a riveting time-jumping, generation-spanning film called Evolution - premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival this month. This is the latest work from Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó working with screenwriter Kata Wéber - they both collaborated on Pieces of a Woman most recently and this is their ambitious follow-up to that film. In Evolution, the duo offers a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history. This looks like a fascinating and poignant look back at how much history affects us, whether we like it or not. These filmmakers are telling such exhilarating stories in the cinema recently. "I don't want to be a survivor.
- 7/12/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Over its final week, the Cannes Film Festival will be screening a few films that qualify as anthologies of one sort or another: Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” (five discrete stories under one umbrella concept) on Monday, the anthology “The Year of the Everlasting Storm” (seven different directors tackle life during the pandemic) on Wednesday and, to kick off the mini-trend, Kornél Mundruczó’s “Evolution” on Sunday.
“Evolution” is, in some ways, the most unified of the trio; it tells three stories from three generations of the same family, using similar techniques to different ends to explore the complicated history of Jews in and around Germany from the end of World War II to the present day. Shot in only 13 days during the pandemic and assembled largely from lengthy, unbroken shots, it feels like a small, experimental movie, but it’s also a meditation on trauma that cuts deep emotionally.
“Evolution” is, in some ways, the most unified of the trio; it tells three stories from three generations of the same family, using similar techniques to different ends to explore the complicated history of Jews in and around Germany from the end of World War II to the present day. Shot in only 13 days during the pandemic and assembled largely from lengthy, unbroken shots, it feels like a small, experimental movie, but it’s also a meditation on trauma that cuts deep emotionally.
- 7/11/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Building on what has come before, the opening act of Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber’s “Evolution” recalls a monologue from the Hungarian duo’s previous film, “Pieces of a Woman,” when a Holocaust-hardened Jewish matriarch played by Ellen Burstyn repeats the mythology of her own survival — the idea that she somehow chose to live when so many around her were murdered. She tells the story of being hidden under the floorboards as an infant, and how even the doctor considered her a lost cause: “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.’”
In “Evolution” — which Mundruczó adapted for the screen from his longtime collaborator’s logistically audacious Proton Theatre stage production — three generations of Jewish survivors choose to lift their heads, one after the other, across a trio of bravura single-take vignettes.
In “Evolution” — which Mundruczó adapted for the screen from his longtime collaborator’s logistically audacious Proton Theatre stage production — three generations of Jewish survivors choose to lift their heads, one after the other, across a trio of bravura single-take vignettes.
- 7/11/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó is back at the Cannes Film Festival for the seventh time with his latest film, “Evolution.” Mundruczó reunites with “Pieces of a Woman” writer and collaborator Kata Wéber for this time-spanning exploration of three generations of a Jewish family. Exclusive to IndieWire, watch the trailer for the film below ahead of its bow in the Cannes Premiere section this weekend.
Here’s the official synopsis: “In ‘Evolution,’ acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history. Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva,...
Here’s the official synopsis: “In ‘Evolution,’ acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history. Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva,...
- 7/10/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In Pieces of a Woman, Vanessa Kirby plays Martha, a first-time mother who loses her baby daughter at birth. Based on the experiences of screenwriter Kata Wéber and her director partner Kornél Mundruczó, the narrative explores Martha’s journey through grief, forgiveness and identity, as her mother Elizabeth (Ellen Burstyn) pushes her to seek legal retribution for the midwife’s supposed negligence. Nominated in the Academy’s Best Actress category, Kirby has also received Globes and BAFTA nominations for her eviscerating portrayal of a woman fighting for emotional survival. In order to authentically inhabit the role, she spoke with bereaved mothers, shadowed a doctor and even witnessed a birth.
Deadline: This is such a harrowing story, and it required such deep emotional connection, how did you protect yourself?
Vanessa Kirby: I thought about it a lot in the middle of the movie when I thought, Oh, every day I’m tortured.
Deadline: This is such a harrowing story, and it required such deep emotional connection, how did you protect yourself?
Vanessa Kirby: I thought about it a lot in the middle of the movie when I thought, Oh, every day I’m tortured.
- 4/15/2021
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Vanessa Kirby’s harrowing and incredibly challenging Pieces of a Woman role earned her an Oscar nomination on Monday morning, and in response, a self-deprecating Kirby drew attention to all the bereaved women who helped her research her character of Martha, a woman who loses her baby at birth. She also paid tribute to her co-star Ellen Burstyn, who was sadly left off the Academy’s list this year.
“I knew my main job was to try and access the collective experiences of all the different women I’d spoken to, whether they’d lost babies really early on, or had to give birth to them, or lost them just after birth,” Kirby said of how she dug into the role. “The unbearable grief that came with losing your baby like that. I just knew that every day I had to try and do what they described to me justice.
“I knew my main job was to try and access the collective experiences of all the different women I’d spoken to, whether they’d lost babies really early on, or had to give birth to them, or lost them just after birth,” Kirby said of how she dug into the role. “The unbearable grief that came with losing your baby like that. I just knew that every day I had to try and do what they described to me justice.
- 3/15/2021
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
“I loved every single minute on set. Everything about it was just a complete joy,” admits BAFTA winner and Emmy nominee Vanessa Kirby about her role in “Pieces of a Woman,” in which she stars as Martha, a woman suffering from suffocating grief and trauma after the death of her infant child. While the film tackles difficult subject matter sensitively and honestly, Kirby enthusiastically valued the opportunity to take on the role, her first time as the star of a film, and shine a light on a subject that is often left unspoken.
“It’s my first lead and I waited a really long time to do it. I’d watched so many people do it,” she says. “I felt so ready to take on the responsibility of playing a lead, knowing what that meant. So every second on set, well, I just really loved it!” Watch our exclusive video interview with Kirby above.
“It’s my first lead and I waited a really long time to do it. I’d watched so many people do it,” she says. “I felt so ready to take on the responsibility of playing a lead, knowing what that meant. So every second on set, well, I just really loved it!” Watch our exclusive video interview with Kirby above.
- 3/6/2021
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Long ago, about a year ago to be exact, when Covid-19 first reared its ugly head and the United States was not yet the fiery petri dish of percolating viral plague it would soon come to be, friends and I gathered in our Los Angeles area homes, expecting lockdown to last three, four weeks, at most. It’s insane to think so now, but there was a faint haze of domestic bliss in the air as people envisioned not having to drive to the office, staying home cocooned in weighted blankets while baking bread and writing that long overdue Great American Novel as the children busied themselves with pastel paints, macaroni art and TikTok videos.
Even as Los Angeles was ordered to lockdown on March 19, with schools, restaurants and various other brick and mortar businesses shuttered, there remained this fleeting notion that by summer, all would return to normal. Kids would head to summer camps,...
Even as Los Angeles was ordered to lockdown on March 19, with schools, restaurants and various other brick and mortar businesses shuttered, there remained this fleeting notion that by summer, all would return to normal. Kids would head to summer camps,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Malina Saval
- Variety Film + TV
The phrase “hard labour” may not have been created to describe the opening 30 minutes of Pieces Of A Woman – but it could have been, not only for actress Vanessa Kirby, whose character Martha spends the time giving birth in real time, Martha’s husband Sean (Shia Labeouf) and midwife Eva (Molly Parker), but for anyone sitting on the other side of the screen watching it.
The grimness of what happens sets the tone for what is to come and, at some point around the 40-minute mark, my mind began idly drifting to the question of who, while scrolling through Netflix after another day in lockdown, is going to not only start, but stick with this slog of a film, despite Kirby’s incredible investment in her character. The film marks the first in English for Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber – who, interviews indicate, drew on their own experience...
The grimness of what happens sets the tone for what is to come and, at some point around the 40-minute mark, my mind began idly drifting to the question of who, while scrolling through Netflix after another day in lockdown, is going to not only start, but stick with this slog of a film, despite Kirby’s incredible investment in her character. The film marks the first in English for Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber – who, interviews indicate, drew on their own experience...
- 2/25/2021
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Despite being snubbed by both the Golden Globes and SAG Awards, humor us as we hold out hope that Ellen Burstyn earns the Oscar recognition she deserves for her work in “Pieces of a Woman.” 88 years young, Burstyn gives one the most searing performances of the year. And the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award winner is more than worthy of what would be her seventh Academy Award nomination.
Read More: Vanessa Kirby and how a “Euphoria” edit room visit led to “Pieces of a Woman” [Interview]
Inspired by events in the lives of director Kornél Mundruczó and screenwriter Kata Wéber, the drama finds Burstyn as a mother fixated on punishing a midwife (Molly Parker) who is potentially legally responsible after her daughter (Vanessa Kirby) has a miscarriage.
Continue reading Ellen Burstyn On ‘Pieces of a Woman’ & Why She Thankfully Won’t Retire [Interview] at The Playlist.
Read More: Vanessa Kirby and how a “Euphoria” edit room visit led to “Pieces of a Woman” [Interview]
Inspired by events in the lives of director Kornél Mundruczó and screenwriter Kata Wéber, the drama finds Burstyn as a mother fixated on punishing a midwife (Molly Parker) who is potentially legally responsible after her daughter (Vanessa Kirby) has a miscarriage.
Continue reading Ellen Burstyn On ‘Pieces of a Woman’ & Why She Thankfully Won’t Retire [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 2/24/2021
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
The awards season’s narrative has been the “year of the women,” as female filmmakers, screenwriters and artisans have been making strong cases for nominations at the Oscars in categories like best picture and director. The Writers Guild of America Awards, however, might have missed the memo, only nominating four women over two films: Emerald Fennell for “Promising Young Woman” and Jena Friedman, Erica Rivinoja and Nina Pedrad, three co-writers from “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”
In the three categories for original, adapted and documentary feature, 31 total screenwriters were nominated, four of which are women, and three come from the same feature film.
Many high-profile contenders were not eligible for recognition, including “Nomadland” (Chloé Zhao) and “Pieces of a Woman” (Kata Wéber), along with independent darlings like “The Assistant” (Kitty Green), “Farewell Amor” (Ekwa Msangi) and “Herself” (Clare Dunne). Despite this fact, there were still many to choose from.
Nina Pedrad, sister...
In the three categories for original, adapted and documentary feature, 31 total screenwriters were nominated, four of which are women, and three come from the same feature film.
Many high-profile contenders were not eligible for recognition, including “Nomadland” (Chloé Zhao) and “Pieces of a Woman” (Kata Wéber), along with independent darlings like “The Assistant” (Kitty Green), “Farewell Amor” (Ekwa Msangi) and “Herself” (Clare Dunne). Despite this fact, there were still many to choose from.
Nina Pedrad, sister...
- 2/16/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Writers Guild of America Awards announced their nominations where big boosts were given to films like “Judas and the Black Messiah” from Shaka King, “Palm Springs” from Max Barbakow and “The White Tiger” from Ramin Bahrani.
Missing from the lineup, that was eligible, are “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” in the original screenplay category and “First Cow” and “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” in the adapted.
The full list of nominations is below:
Original Screenplay
“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King, Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas “Palm Springs” (Hulu/Neon) – Screenplay by Andy Siara, Story by Andy Siara & Max Barbakow “Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features) – Written by Emerald Fennell “Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix) – Written by Aaron Sorkin...
Missing from the lineup, that was eligible, are “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” in the original screenplay category and “First Cow” and “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” in the adapted.
The full list of nominations is below:
Original Screenplay
“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King, Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas “Palm Springs” (Hulu/Neon) – Screenplay by Andy Siara, Story by Andy Siara & Max Barbakow “Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features) – Written by Emerald Fennell “Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix) – Written by Aaron Sorkin...
- 2/16/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Every year, the Writers Guild of America leaves out several Oscar-contending screenplays in its award nominations. But this year’s ineligible list is massive, from “Mank” to “Nomadland.” The WGA maintains jurisdiction over whether scripts are produced under a Writer’s Guild contract, and who finally gets credit on a screenplay. The guild insists on withholding non-signatories from being part of the WGA Awards.
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
- 2/16/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Every year, the Writers Guild of America leaves out several Oscar-contending screenplays in its award nominations. But this year’s ineligible list is massive, from “Mank” to “Nomadland.” The WGA maintains jurisdiction over whether scripts are produced under a Writer’s Guild contract, and who finally gets credit on a screenplay. The guild insists on withholding non-signatories from being part of the WGA Awards.
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
That’s why, unlike the other guilds, every year a long list of WGA ineligible indie, British, and animated movies are excluded. A WGA nomination isn’t essential for Oscar nomination; plenty of exceptions include American indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Iranian Oscar-winner “A Separation,” Oscar-winning British films “Les Miserables,” and “The Favourite,” and all Pixar animated contenders, from “Up” to “Incredibles 2.” “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech” both won Best Picture without the benefit of a WGA nomination.
The WGA nominees listed below...
- 2/16/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
This morning, actress Vanessa Kirby received her first Golden Globe nomination for her shattering turn in Netflix drama, Pieces of a Woman.
“I feel, more than anything, just so honored that this was my first lead role,” she told Deadline, “and that this is the film that I’ve been nominated for.”
In the “deeply personal” film directed by Kornél Mundruczó, from a script by Kata Wéber, Kirby plays Martha, a Boston mother who goes through a yearlong journey of mourning, after her home birth ends in tragedy.
For the actress, the recognition serves as a tribute to all the powerful and resilient women she’d spoken with, in the course of making the film, who had shared with her their own experiences with loss. “Because honestly, every day throughout filming, it was always about the women that had sat with me and told me their stories,” she said. “So,...
“I feel, more than anything, just so honored that this was my first lead role,” she told Deadline, “and that this is the film that I’ve been nominated for.”
In the “deeply personal” film directed by Kornél Mundruczó, from a script by Kata Wéber, Kirby plays Martha, a Boston mother who goes through a yearlong journey of mourning, after her home birth ends in tragedy.
For the actress, the recognition serves as a tribute to all the powerful and resilient women she’d spoken with, in the course of making the film, who had shared with her their own experiences with loss. “Because honestly, every day throughout filming, it was always about the women that had sat with me and told me their stories,” she said. “So,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Back in 1971, when Ellen Burstyn was first catapulted to movie stardom with The Last Picture Show, she received a letter.
“It was from a young man in Texas who told me that he was suicidal,” she says. The man wrote that he’d decided to see one final movie before he killed himself: The Last Picture Show. And that her performance had changed his mind. “He came out of there feeling, ‘Well, if she can make it through life,’ meaning the character I played, ‘if she can make it, I guess I can too.’” He thanked Burstyn for saving his life.
An inspiring and indomitable spirit isn’t confined to Burstyn’s work though; it seems inherent to who she is. As an up-and-coming actress, before she made her name on the stage and in television, before the big film roles came in, she never thought of quitting. “Honestly, I...
“It was from a young man in Texas who told me that he was suicidal,” she says. The man wrote that he’d decided to see one final movie before he killed himself: The Last Picture Show. And that her performance had changed his mind. “He came out of there feeling, ‘Well, if she can make it through life,’ meaning the character I played, ‘if she can make it, I guess I can too.’” He thanked Burstyn for saving his life.
An inspiring and indomitable spirit isn’t confined to Burstyn’s work though; it seems inherent to who she is. As an up-and-coming actress, before she made her name on the stage and in television, before the big film roles came in, she never thought of quitting. “Honestly, I...
- 2/2/2021
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Because of This One Flash of Insight, Ellen Burstyn Could Win a Second Oscar for ‘Pieces of a Woman’
With six Oscar nominations (and one win), seven Globe film nominations, eight Emmy nods (and two wins), Burstyn knows how to pick her roles. If she likes a script, she asks about the director. Only when she watched Darren Aronofsky’s “Pi” did she get why she should take the role of the drug-addicted mother in “Requiem for Dream.” “Ok, I get it, the guy’s a poet,” she said. “Twice in my life at the end of a screening there was a 10-minute standing ovation,” she said, “‘Spitfire Grill’ at Sundance and ‘Requiem for a Dream’ at Cannes.” It yielded another Oscar nod.
With Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman,” she read the script by Hungarian playwright/screenwriter Kata Wéber, who drew upon her own silent reaction to a miscarriage. Burstyn watched Mundruczó’s Oscar submission “White God.” “I liked the script, investigated Kornél’s work,” Burstyn said.
With Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman,” she read the script by Hungarian playwright/screenwriter Kata Wéber, who drew upon her own silent reaction to a miscarriage. Burstyn watched Mundruczó’s Oscar submission “White God.” “I liked the script, investigated Kornél’s work,” Burstyn said.
- 2/1/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Because of This One Flash of Insight, Ellen Burstyn Could Win a Second Oscar for ‘Pieces of a Woman’
With six Oscar nominations (and one win), seven Globe film nominations, eight Emmy nods (and two wins), Burstyn knows how to pick her roles. If she likes a script, she asks about the director. Only when she watched Darren Aronofsky’s “Pi” did she get why she should take the role of the drug-addicted mother in “Requiem for Dream.” “Ok, I get it, the guy’s a poet,” she said. “Twice in my life at the end of a screening there was a 10-minute standing ovation,” she said, “‘Spitfire Grill’ at Sundance and ‘Requiem for a Dream’ at Cannes.” It yielded another Oscar nod.
With Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman,” she read the script by Hungarian playwright/screenwriter Kata Wéber, who drew upon her own silent reaction to a miscarriage. Burstyn watched Mundruczó’s Oscar submission “White God.” “I liked the script, investigated Kornél’s work,” Burstyn said.
With Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman,” she read the script by Hungarian playwright/screenwriter Kata Wéber, who drew upon her own silent reaction to a miscarriage. Burstyn watched Mundruczó’s Oscar submission “White God.” “I liked the script, investigated Kornél’s work,” Burstyn said.
- 2/1/2021
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”) and Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.
Vanessa Kirby, who played Princess Margaret on the first two seasons of Netflix’s “The Crown,” has returned to the streaming service in the acquisition “Pieces of a Woman.” In the Kornél Mundruczó film, Kirby plays Martha, whose home birth ends in tragedy, upending her life. The birth scene, early in the movie, is a harrowing 24-minute single take, based on the experience of “Pieces of a Woman” screenwriter Kata Wéber. For Amanda Seyfried, whose first film role was Karen in “Mean Girls,” David Fincher’s “Mank” (also on Netflix) was “a dream come true, actually.” In “Mank,” Seyfried’s Marion Davies forges a warm bond with Gary Oldman’s Herman Mankiewicz — but that won’t stop...
Vanessa Kirby, who played Princess Margaret on the first two seasons of Netflix’s “The Crown,” has returned to the streaming service in the acquisition “Pieces of a Woman.” In the Kornél Mundruczó film, Kirby plays Martha, whose home birth ends in tragedy, upending her life. The birth scene, early in the movie, is a harrowing 24-minute single take, based on the experience of “Pieces of a Woman” screenwriter Kata Wéber. For Amanda Seyfried, whose first film role was Karen in “Mean Girls,” David Fincher’s “Mank” (also on Netflix) was “a dream come true, actually.” In “Mank,” Seyfried’s Marion Davies forges a warm bond with Gary Oldman’s Herman Mankiewicz — but that won’t stop...
- 1/29/2021
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
For “White God” director Kornél Mundruczó and his wife, screenwriter Kata Wéber, their latest collaboration, “Pieces of a Woman,” has been more dramatic than your typical cinematic endeavor. Inspired by the couple’s own miscarriage, the story of a woman attempting to deal with her loss went from a play to a screenplay to a movie set in the United States starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia Labeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Benny Safdie, Sarah Snook, and Molly Parker.
Continue reading ‘Pieces Of A Woman’ Filmmakers Reflect On Their Own Miscarriage, Shia Labeouf & Casting Benny Safdie [Interview] at The Playlist.
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- 1/25/2021
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
“Pieces of a Woman” marks the English-language debut for director Kornél Mundruczó, who gained a passionate following with his breakout film “White God” in 2014. The Hungarian filmmaker has brought his latest project to the streaming giant Netflix, earning acclaim for his singular vision and an outstanding performance by Vanessa Kirby.
“Pieces of a Woman” is written by Kata Wéber, Mundruczó’s partner, based on their shared personal experience. The follows a Boston couple, Martha (Kirby) and Sean (Shia Labeouf), whose lives are changed irrevocably during a home birth at a midwife’s hands. Ellen Burstyn’s plays Martha’s mother.
In August, ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Martin Scorsese joined as an executive producer even before it had distribution. “It’s lucky to see a movie that takes you by surprise,” Scorsese says in a statement to Variety. “I was emotionally invested in it from the first scene,...
“Pieces of a Woman” is written by Kata Wéber, Mundruczó’s partner, based on their shared personal experience. The follows a Boston couple, Martha (Kirby) and Sean (Shia Labeouf), whose lives are changed irrevocably during a home birth at a midwife’s hands. Ellen Burstyn’s plays Martha’s mother.
In August, ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Martin Scorsese joined as an executive producer even before it had distribution. “It’s lucky to see a movie that takes you by surprise,” Scorsese says in a statement to Variety. “I was emotionally invested in it from the first scene,...
- 1/25/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most intensely personal entries in this year’s festival season saw Romanian director Kornél Mundruczó and his writer partner Kata Wéber draw on their own private life for Pieces of a Woman, in which Vanessa Kirby plays Martha, a first-time mother whose daughter dies in childbirth. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as Elizabeth, Martha’s mother, who leads the charge to prosecute the midwife present at the birth.
The Netflix film sent shockwaves when it bowed at the Venice Film Festival in August, not least because of the harrowing 24-minute single take that captures the film’s central tragedy in real time.
Writer Kata Wéber admits during Netflix’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event that the script was very, very difficult to write.
“I was really afraid,” she says. “I almost felt like I couldn’t do it. It felt like a really dark place—I...
The Netflix film sent shockwaves when it bowed at the Venice Film Festival in August, not least because of the harrowing 24-minute single take that captures the film’s central tragedy in real time.
Writer Kata Wéber admits during Netflix’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event that the script was very, very difficult to write.
“I was really afraid,” she says. “I almost felt like I couldn’t do it. It felt like a really dark place—I...
- 1/23/2021
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
“Pieces of a Woman” has garnered a lot of awards buzz for Vanessa Kirby’s fearless performance as Martha, a woman grieving the loss of her baby in childbirth. Since premiering at the Venice Film Festival in September, talk has also centered on a scene that depicts the birth — which was filmed in one 24-minute, unbroken take as her character moves throughout the apartment, including in and out of the bathtub.
And while it was intimidating to shoot, Kirby told Variety’s Award Circuit podcast that it was actually a relief to be done in one take. “Some people are kind of surprised when I describe it like that, because they think that it would be scarier but honestly, truthfully, it’s not,” she said. “I was definitely more afraid of the idea of breaking for lunch [and then] coming back, having to go into the bath and try and get myself...
And while it was intimidating to shoot, Kirby told Variety’s Award Circuit podcast that it was actually a relief to be done in one take. “Some people are kind of surprised when I describe it like that, because they think that it would be scarier but honestly, truthfully, it’s not,” she said. “I was definitely more afraid of the idea of breaking for lunch [and then] coming back, having to go into the bath and try and get myself...
- 1/14/2021
- by Jenelle Riley
- Variety Film + TV
“Pieces of a Woman” premiered at the Venice Film Festival last September, earning high praise from critics and, in particular, the film’s star Vanessa Kirby. Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in Venice and Oscar buzz for the actor has continued to spread since Netflix released the film to a wide audience on January 7. Watch highlights of Kirby’s performance in an exclusive new featurette from Netflix above.
“‘Pieces of a Woman’ is an odyssey of grief,” Kirby explains in the three-minute reel. “It’s a very powerful exploration of one woman’s journey, but one that I think is incredibly universal.” Executive producer Martin Scorsese, director Kornél Mundruczó, screenwriter Kata Wéber and actress Ellen Burstyn also discuss their journey with the Netflix original film and witnessing what they describe as Kirby’s “stunning” and “brilliant” performance. “I feel mother’s pride,” says Burstyn when asked about working alongside Kirby.
“‘Pieces of a Woman’ is an odyssey of grief,” Kirby explains in the three-minute reel. “It’s a very powerful exploration of one woman’s journey, but one that I think is incredibly universal.” Executive producer Martin Scorsese, director Kornél Mundruczó, screenwriter Kata Wéber and actress Ellen Burstyn also discuss their journey with the Netflix original film and witnessing what they describe as Kirby’s “stunning” and “brilliant” performance. “I feel mother’s pride,” says Burstyn when asked about working alongside Kirby.
- 1/12/2021
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber are taking a deep look into grief and motherhood in their gut-wrenching drama Pieces of a Woman.
The Netflix film stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf and follows a young couple Martha and Sean grappling with the loss of their newborn baby following a complicated home birth. The tragic event leads to a yearlong journey of Martha navigating her grief and fractured relationships in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
The story is a personal one for director Mundruczó and writer Wéber who both experienced the loss of a child.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter along with ...
The Netflix film stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf and follows a young couple Martha and Sean grappling with the loss of their newborn baby following a complicated home birth. The tragic event leads to a yearlong journey of Martha navigating her grief and fractured relationships in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
The story is a personal one for director Mundruczó and writer Wéber who both experienced the loss of a child.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter along with ...
- 1/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber are taking a deep look into grief and motherhood in their gut-wrenching drama Pieces of a Woman.
The Netflix film stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf and follows a young couple Martha and Sean grappling with the loss of their newborn baby following a complicated home birth. The tragic event leads to a yearlong journey of Martha navigating her grief and fractured relationships in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
The story is a personal one for director Mundruczó and writer Wéber who both experienced the loss of a child.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter along with ...
The Netflix film stars Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf and follows a young couple Martha and Sean grappling with the loss of their newborn baby following a complicated home birth. The tragic event leads to a yearlong journey of Martha navigating her grief and fractured relationships in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
The story is a personal one for director Mundruczó and writer Wéber who both experienced the loss of a child.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter along with ...
- 1/11/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In “Pieces of a Woman” — Netflix’s Oscar-worthy melodrama about a couple devastated by loss of their baby after a home birth — Shia Labeouf plays Sean, the husband to Vanessa Kirby’s Martha, who is struggling with the unfathomable tragedy.
In one scene, Sean becomes intimate, somewhat forcibly, with his wife, who is uninterested and unengaged, as she feels emotionless and empty after losing her child. In another scene, Sean, under the influence of drugs, throws an object at Martha, calling her belittling and demeaning profanities as he slurs his words.
The scenes depict one side of grief, filled with anger and out-of-character emotions that have gone too far. The film is about working through loss, and the tough-to-watch scenes are part of the character’s journeys.
In real life, Labeouf was accused of abusive behavior, both verbal and physical, by his ex-girlfriend, the musician, dancer and actress Fka Twigs,...
In one scene, Sean becomes intimate, somewhat forcibly, with his wife, who is uninterested and unengaged, as she feels emotionless and empty after losing her child. In another scene, Sean, under the influence of drugs, throws an object at Martha, calling her belittling and demeaning profanities as he slurs his words.
The scenes depict one side of grief, filled with anger and out-of-character emotions that have gone too far. The film is about working through loss, and the tough-to-watch scenes are part of the character’s journeys.
In real life, Labeouf was accused of abusive behavior, both verbal and physical, by his ex-girlfriend, the musician, dancer and actress Fka Twigs,...
- 1/8/2021
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Ignore the cringeworthy title, which brings to mind several lives’ worth of Lifetime movies — Pieces of a Woman, a portrait of personal disintegration and the from-the-ashes process of piecing things back together, gives you three distinct reasons to pay attention to this late-breaking entry in the seasonal Pretty People in Pain sweepstakes. (It hit theaters on December 30th for a qualifying run; it starts streaming on Netflix on January 7th.) The first is The Shot, a set piece that kickstarts the drama in motion. We’ve already briefly met Martha...
- 1/8/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
To celebrate the release of Pieces of a Woman, the new drama from film-making duo Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber, we sat down with them and the film’s star – and HeyUGuys favourite – Vanessa Kirby to chat about the heartbreaking new film that is getting plenty of Oscar buzz.
Kirby plays Martha, a Boston woman who is on the verge of parenthood with husband Sean (Shia Labeouf) when their idyllic homebirth turns to heartbreak. At the hands of a flustered midwife, who faces charges of criminal negligence, Martha begins a year-long odyssey to navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with her husband and her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn), along with the publicly vilified midwife whom she must face in court.
After her star-making turns in The Crown, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Hobbs & Shaw, Kirby was looking for something “scary” to do and talks about the challenges of playing an expectant mother,...
Kirby plays Martha, a Boston woman who is on the verge of parenthood with husband Sean (Shia Labeouf) when their idyllic homebirth turns to heartbreak. At the hands of a flustered midwife, who faces charges of criminal negligence, Martha begins a year-long odyssey to navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with her husband and her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn), along with the publicly vilified midwife whom she must face in court.
After her star-making turns in The Crown, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Hobbs & Shaw, Kirby was looking for something “scary” to do and talks about the challenges of playing an expectant mother,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“What Does It Mean When We’re Working in 360?”: Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber on Pieces of a Woman
While the arrival of a newborn child can strengthen a couple’s relationship, the loss of one can accentuate fissures that were already there. Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman is an emotionally high-pitched study of the Ptsd that results from a home birth gone fatally wrong. Based on a stage play by Mundruczó’s partner, Kata Wéber, this film adaptation moves the action to Boston and casts as its two leads Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf. Following its world premiere at last fall’s Venice International Film Festival (where Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress), press coverage for […]
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- 1/5/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“What Does It Mean When We’re Working in 360?”: Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber on Pieces of a Woman
While the arrival of a newborn child can strengthen a couple’s relationship, the loss of one can accentuate fissures that were already there. Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman is an emotionally high-pitched study of the Ptsd that results from a home birth gone fatally wrong. Based on a stage play by Mundruczó’s partner, Kata Wéber, this film adaptation moves the action to Boston and casts as its two leads Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf. Following its world premiere at last fall’s Venice International Film Festival (where Kirby was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actress), press coverage for […]
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- 1/5/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Netflix enters 2021 with a January slate that’s shaped by the lingering weirdness of 2020, as a month that’s typically full of (recently re-licensed) franchise movies and new seasons of “Sex Education” has mutated into a deep grab bag of second-tier Oscar contenders, festival pick-ups, and a handful of comfort food classics that could double as ideal New Year’s Day fare.
On the awards tip, Vanessa Kirby vehicle “Pieces of a Woman” is probably the most anticipated new arrival, and the actress makes the most of this unfathomably tough melodrama about a woman coping in the months after a stillbirth (she’s even better in next month’s “The World to Come”). Rahmin Bahrani’s “The White Tiger” is still under embargo, but his adaptation Aravind Adiga’s whirlwind novel about an Indian driver scraping his way up the social ladder will almost certainly be worth a look when...
On the awards tip, Vanessa Kirby vehicle “Pieces of a Woman” is probably the most anticipated new arrival, and the actress makes the most of this unfathomably tough melodrama about a woman coping in the months after a stillbirth (she’s even better in next month’s “The World to Come”). Rahmin Bahrani’s “The White Tiger” is still under embargo, but his adaptation Aravind Adiga’s whirlwind novel about an Indian driver scraping his way up the social ladder will almost certainly be worth a look when...
- 1/1/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Kornél Mundruczó’s film, starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf as a young couple hit by tragedy, combines high trauma and horribly unconvincing stretches
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó deserves our thanks for going somewhere very few film-makers want to go: out on a limb. Many a time, his neck has been risked and his arm has been chanced; he makes movies to challenge us. White God (2014) was a Hitchcockian nightmare about a mass uprising among all the dogs in a city, and Jupiter’s Mood (2017) was a fantasy superhero-parable about a Syrian refugee who gets the ability to fly after being shot by an immigration cop.
Most of his movies have been set in Hungary, but this new drama, scripted by Kata Wéber (who also wrote White God and Jupiter’s Moon), is his first English-language film, set in an indeterminate American city (but filmed in Quebec). It’s a vehement,...
Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó deserves our thanks for going somewhere very few film-makers want to go: out on a limb. Many a time, his neck has been risked and his arm has been chanced; he makes movies to challenge us. White God (2014) was a Hitchcockian nightmare about a mass uprising among all the dogs in a city, and Jupiter’s Mood (2017) was a fantasy superhero-parable about a Syrian refugee who gets the ability to fly after being shot by an immigration cop.
Most of his movies have been set in Hungary, but this new drama, scripted by Kata Wéber (who also wrote White God and Jupiter’s Moon), is his first English-language film, set in an indeterminate American city (but filmed in Quebec). It’s a vehement,...
- 12/29/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Pieces Of A Woman Netflix Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Kornél Mundruczós Writer: Kata Wéber Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Shia Labeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger, Benny Safdie, Ellen Burstyn, Jimmie Fails Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 12/26/20 Opens: December 30, 2020 Most of us who have […]
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- 12/27/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
After last year’s post-rehab redemption tour for Alma Har’el’s “Honey Boy,” Shia Labeouf is sliding back to persona non grata status in Hollywood. This time, it’s after the New York Times reveal last week of a lawsuit from his former girlfriend Fka Twigs alleging an emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive relationship. While Labeouf was a long-shot awards contender this year for his supporting turn in “Pieces of a Woman,” Netflix has removed his name from the For Your Consideration publicity materials on the awards page for the upcoming drama. His name is no longer included in the synopsis on the site, and also is not listed among those the streamer is pushing for film prizes.
That’s because he’s toxic again. But Hollywood forgives and forgets when recovery is found. After a long struggle with addiction, when Robert Downey, Jr. returned from prison and eventually found sobriety,...
That’s because he’s toxic again. But Hollywood forgives and forgets when recovery is found. After a long struggle with addiction, when Robert Downey, Jr. returned from prison and eventually found sobriety,...
- 12/20/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
During a seminar at EnergaCamerimage Film Festival dedicated to their drama “Pieces of a Woman,” acquired by Netflix following its premiere in Venice, cinematographer Benjamin Loeb and Kornél Mundruczó praised their cast, led by Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf playing a couple dealing with the tragic loss of their newborn child. Kirby, who left Italy with the Volpi Cup for best actress, has been the subject of Oscar buzz ever since.
“Vanessa read the script in July and she was in Budapest within 24 hours. She was really touched by it,” said Mundruczó.
“I knew her from ‘The Crown’ and I was a fan, but Princess Margaret was not that close to [the protagonist] Martha – my Martha. When we met, I noticed there is something very classic about her. She is like all the best European icons, like Cardinale or Schygulla, and that’s what this movie needed. Martha has a connection to someone she lost,...
“Vanessa read the script in July and she was in Budapest within 24 hours. She was really touched by it,” said Mundruczó.
“I knew her from ‘The Crown’ and I was a fan, but Princess Margaret was not that close to [the protagonist] Martha – my Martha. When we met, I noticed there is something very classic about her. She is like all the best European icons, like Cardinale or Schygulla, and that’s what this movie needed. Martha has a connection to someone she lost,...
- 11/21/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Earlier today, Netflix released their First Trailer for Pieces of a Woman, yet another Oscar contender from the streaming giant. Picked up after it made an impact on the Film Festival circuit, the movie is a drama with amazing performances from Vanessa Kirby, Ellen Burstyn, and Shia Labeouf. The Academy is almost certainly going to fall for the acting on display here, as it’s of the first order. At the same time, the flick is going to be challenging for some, so how it does will partly depend on how Netflix is able to position the title during the season. Having someone like Martin Scorsese on as an executive producer certainly doesn’t hurt, though. The Trailer can be seen at the bottom of the post, as always… The film is a wrenching drama, with the simple synopsis from Netflix as follows: “From award-winning director Kornél Mundruczó (White God) and executive producer Martin Scorsese,...
- 11/17/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf lose their child in a tragic home birth in the new trailer for Pieces of a Woman, out January 7th on Netflix.
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, the film stars Kirby and Labeouf as Martha and Sean, a couple whose baby dies while Martha is in labor in their Boston home. For Martha, the year that follows is filled with grief as she walks aimlessly through grocery stores and gazes at children on the train. Her mother (played by Ellen Burstyn) urges her to face the tragedy,...
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, the film stars Kirby and Labeouf as Martha and Sean, a couple whose baby dies while Martha is in labor in their Boston home. For Martha, the year that follows is filled with grief as she walks aimlessly through grocery stores and gazes at children on the train. Her mother (played by Ellen Burstyn) urges her to face the tragedy,...
- 11/17/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Netflix has debuted a new trailer for the heartbreaking story ‘Pieces of a Woman’ starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf. Check out our review from Venice right here.
Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia Labeouf) are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends in unimaginable tragedy. Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for Martha, who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with Sean and her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn), along with the publicly vilified midwife (Molly Parker), whom she must face in court. Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, written by Kata Wéber, and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Pieces Of A Woman is a deeply personal, searing, and ultimately transcendent story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, the film stars Vanessa Kirby, Ellen Burstyn, Shia Labeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger,...
Martha (Vanessa Kirby) and Sean (Shia Labeouf) are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends in unimaginable tragedy. Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for Martha, who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with Sean and her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn), along with the publicly vilified midwife (Molly Parker), whom she must face in court. Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, written by Kata Wéber, and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Pieces Of A Woman is a deeply personal, searing, and ultimately transcendent story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, the film stars Vanessa Kirby, Ellen Burstyn, Shia Labeouf, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger,...
- 11/17/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
“Pieces of a Woman,” starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf in critically lauded leading performances, debuted its first heart-wrenching trailer on Tuesday.
Directed by Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó, the film is a resonant drama about a Boston couple devastated by the loss of their baby after birth.
Kirby portrays an upper-middle class young woman named Martha, who contrasts with her husband (Labeouf), a blue-collar worker named Sean. The couple navigates preexisting struggles, such as Martha’s trauma as a result of her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn), who never approved of the couple; and Sean’s addiction amid the ongoing distress of losing a child, whose birth seemed to be the only hope of holding the two together.
Directed from a script by Kata Wéber, one of Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch, the movie centers on the legal fallout and emotional responses following the tragedy of a failed home birth at...
Directed by Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó, the film is a resonant drama about a Boston couple devastated by the loss of their baby after birth.
Kirby portrays an upper-middle class young woman named Martha, who contrasts with her husband (Labeouf), a blue-collar worker named Sean. The couple navigates preexisting struggles, such as Martha’s trauma as a result of her domineering mother (Ellen Burstyn), who never approved of the couple; and Sean’s addiction amid the ongoing distress of losing a child, whose birth seemed to be the only hope of holding the two together.
Directed from a script by Kata Wéber, one of Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch, the movie centers on the legal fallout and emotional responses following the tragedy of a failed home birth at...
- 11/17/2020
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- Variety Film + TV
“Pieces of a Woman,” the English-language debut of director Kornél Mundruczó and written with his wife Kata Wéber, stunned the fall festival circuit earlier this year, playing at Venice and Toronto. Starring Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf as a couple grappling with the unimaginable and with stellar supporting turns from the likes of Ellen Burstyn and Sarah Snook, the drama launches on Netflix beginning January 7, 2021.
Martin Scorsese executive-produces this gritty and hard-edged examination of loss centered on Martha (Kirby) and Sean (Labeouf), a Boston couple reeling after a home birth ends in tragedy. Martha spirals into a messy, yearlong odyssey of grief, often pained discovery while also haunted by memories of what went wrong with the now publicly vilified midwife (Molly Parker), who she must face in court. Martha also has to answer to her domineering mother, played enormously by Burstyn in another career-topping turn of many. Sean, meanwhile, goes...
Martin Scorsese executive-produces this gritty and hard-edged examination of loss centered on Martha (Kirby) and Sean (Labeouf), a Boston couple reeling after a home birth ends in tragedy. Martha spirals into a messy, yearlong odyssey of grief, often pained discovery while also haunted by memories of what went wrong with the now publicly vilified midwife (Molly Parker), who she must face in court. Martha also has to answer to her domineering mother, played enormously by Burstyn in another career-topping turn of many. Sean, meanwhile, goes...
- 11/17/2020
- by Kate Erbland and Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Vanessa Kirby and Shia Labeouf have to face the harsh reality of losing their child shortly after its birth in the wrenching first trailer for the Netflix drama “Pieces of a Woman.”
Kirby in particular spars with her mother played by Ellen Burstyn, who fears that by not going to trial to sue their midwife (Molly Parker) after tragedy strikes, she’s not facing this grief head on.
“I am facing this. I am facing it! I Am Facing This,” Kirby bellows in the trailer. “Who cares about what they think. This is about me. This is about my life. This is me.”
Much of the trailer for the film showcases the devastating aftermath of Kirby giving birth, but what’s nearly overlooked in the trailer is the punishing first 30 minutes of the film shot in a single, unbroken take without music that shows Kirby’s pain spread across hours...
Kirby in particular spars with her mother played by Ellen Burstyn, who fears that by not going to trial to sue their midwife (Molly Parker) after tragedy strikes, she’s not facing this grief head on.
“I am facing this. I am facing it! I Am Facing This,” Kirby bellows in the trailer. “Who cares about what they think. This is about me. This is about my life. This is me.”
Much of the trailer for the film showcases the devastating aftermath of Kirby giving birth, but what’s nearly overlooked in the trailer is the punishing first 30 minutes of the film shot in a single, unbroken take without music that shows Kirby’s pain spread across hours...
- 11/17/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
There’s a singular vision that director Kornél Mundruczó had in constructing “Pieces of a Woman,” and he had the full trust of his actors, particularly Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn. The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival where Kirby won the Volpi Cup for best actress. Just ahead of its Venice bow, Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese joined the film as an executive producer.
The phrase “it’s difficult to watch” is often spoken in various cinephile circles when referring to dour, less-than-pleasant movie experiences. I can recall having those same conversations around films like “Requiem for a Dream” and “Son of Saul.” Similar words have been uttered about Mundruczó’s portrait of loss and grief.
The role of Martha, a woman whose home birth ends in an unfathomable tragedy, demanded a lot of the 32-year-old Kirby. She’s received rave reviews for her performance, planting...
The phrase “it’s difficult to watch” is often spoken in various cinephile circles when referring to dour, less-than-pleasant movie experiences. I can recall having those same conversations around films like “Requiem for a Dream” and “Son of Saul.” Similar words have been uttered about Mundruczó’s portrait of loss and grief.
The role of Martha, a woman whose home birth ends in an unfathomable tragedy, demanded a lot of the 32-year-old Kirby. She’s received rave reviews for her performance, planting...
- 11/12/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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