For the first half-hour of the film Pieces of a Woman, Vanessa Kirby pretends to give birth. This is not a spoiler: the film is about her year-long process of mourning as her character, Martha, goes on to deal with grief and blame. Kirby will leave you shattered as she heads off to receive umpteen nominations for best actress to add to the award she won for the role at the Venice Film Festival last year. The issue for Kirby was that she had never given birth. And unlike, say, driving a car, bringing life into the world isn’t easy to mimic if

Source: The Times January 03, 2021 00:01 UTC