Will try not to spoil but anyhow… SPOILERS

Award season with a difference this year. Instead of going to a multi chain or the local cinema or an Indi one about 30minute away, its all being done through streaming so i am looking at all4, iplayer, prime, sky, now tv & netflix for my oscar & bafta fix. I have now moved out of home so i will probably have to go back to my parents (im still in their bubble) to watch some of these films. But Netflix is currently the service that i have (although its got up by £1.00 this month) so lets try & get through those shall we. Pieces of a Woman will be on my TV once Netflix has decided if it actually wants to work or not on my TV its just not finding it tonight… 27 minutes later & almost a back up dvd ready & we are a go.

So going to try & do this like a Cinema Club Review as not everyones done all the award seasons films yet (well i havent).

Vanessa Kirby deserves all the marbles for this entire film. She is stunning. She is Scary. She made me want to hug her. & well i just now love the woman. I always thought she was good & underrated but this performance WOW. Its one people will talk about past this award season. Its one of those where people when they talk about her 100s of years from now will go did you see Kirby in Pieces of a Woman? & people will still go oh wow.

That opening birthing scene which goes on for 20 plus minutes, is the thing everyone talks about & then noones talks about as thats why you need to see this film. & im going to try & do the same. I’ve not had kids, i have no immediate plan in the next 2 years to have a kid, i have no partner… however i watched that non cut masterpiece of a scene & my body was telling me to push with her. It could tell there was trauma going on. & its so intense & its o real & so raw that you just watch it opened mouthed trying to hold all of your emotions in too. Stunning.

I mean you never get over that scene for the rest of the film, which is also good & perfectly fine, but it never reaches that high again until she goes to pick up her photos & her speech after that. The rest of the film is very very good but you are never taken to that place again. you give us that high & then you never return us to somewhere close.

I like the apples, & how that was very ambiguous as to why they were so important until much later in the film, but when it was revealed that was really really sweet.

Everyone else in the film was very good too & it was well acted but again after that first bit, apart from the argument with her mum at dinner (& i really hated her mum, i know she had her best interest at heart but did she really), nothing got close to the power of acting.

I like the bridge metaphor & the river, that was very clever when it first appeared i just kind of went oh theres a bridge being built & then by the 3rd time i was like oh i get this now, its not just cos hes in construction.

Lots of staring & walking around in silence in the film for prolonged periods. An awful lot of that. I mean we arent talking The Revenant levels of doing this but it got close.

& thats all i can really say without completely ruining it for you. It is really worth watching for that first act before the film technically starts it really is. & the rest of it is good but not as good as that Birth scene. Truly a stunning piece of work.

Give Vanessa that Oscar (or at least a BAFTA).