Review of Pieces of a Woman (2020) by Mauro_Lanari — 08 Feb 2021
(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" (?).
This review of Pieces of a Woman (2020) was written by Mauro_Lanari on 08 Feb 2021.
Pieces of a Woman has generally received positive reviews.
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