'Pieces of a Woman' Film Review: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf Explore Shades of Grief

The first 30 minutes of director Kornél Mundruczó’s “Pieces of a Woman” is grueling, bravura filmmaking that hangs over the rest of this unsettling drama, which had its world premiere at this week’s Venice International Film Festival. More than 20 of those minutes consist of a scene in the apartment of a young couple, Sean and Martha, beginning with Martha in labor and ending shortly after she gives birth to a daughter; shot in a single, uninterrupted take with almost no music, it cycl...