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Vanessa Kirbys Pieces of a Woman comes at bizarre time in history

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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.
Apples appear throughout the narrative, sometimes seen oxidizing. Sean notices part of one on the kitchen island and asks her if she is going to eat that. This recurring symbol reminds us of her offspring, her passing, the mother's trauma and how to overcome. It also serves as a hopeful sign.
Kirby has described the film as almost a character study on grief that also explores intergenerational trauma. In the film, Martha's family are all physically present but not emotionally available to her, and they each find different ways to process their loss, according to Roy.
Years later, a little girl climbs a lush, fruit-laden apple tree, and is seen walking with Martha towards her house. It is insinuated that this child, Lucy, or Lucianna, is Martha's child, and that she is finally blooming past her trauma into a beautiful future.
In its staging and writing, Pieces of a Woman feels positively premeditated, even though everyone is trying very hard to appear natural. Some camera moves are so precise that there's no way that the scenes could have been improvised, even though the script is working double shifts to convince you that they are.