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Vanessa Kirby's new film is the most emotionally powerful watch on Netflix right now One of the opening scenes of new film Pieces of a Woman sees Martha (Vanessa Kirby) at her office baby shower. Hands are laid on her bump, there's cake; she leaves the office to pick up a new family car bought by her overbearing mother (Ellen Burstyn) and to start a new chapter. So far, so normal. But then the home birth she's planned is beset with tragedy and ends in the death of her baby. "I don't think I took a breath during the intense, visceral 25-minute single-shot birth scene – I've never seen anything like it," says Stylist's entertainment director Helen Bownass of the personal film by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó and his writer/partner Kata Wéber. After the devastating birth, Martha retreats into herself under of the weight of the loss, while her husband Sean (played by Shia LaBeouf, who was recently accused of abuse by ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs among others) indulges in old toxic addictions and her mother fixates on them taking action against their midwife. "Kirby is remarkable as a woman isolated and undone by trauma," says Helen. "This is a stark and powerful film that meditates on grief and how, ultimately, we are alone in our response to it." On Netflix now

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