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Netflix movie review: Pieces of a Woman – Vanessa Kirby excels in laboured relationship drama

• The film, adapted from a stage play, opens with a bravura sequence showing a woman’s home birth, but can’t sustain its naturalism and technical audacity
• What sustains it is outstanding work by Kirby, playing a mother whose newborn dies, Shia LaBoeuf as her husband, and Ellen Burstyn as her overbearing mother