VANESSA KIRBY “PIECES OF A WOMAN”
Key scene: Martha (Kirby) delivers her baby at home, but the child dies shortly after being born.
What’s so special: “[It] serves as
a reference point throughout the entire story,” director Kornél Mundruczó writes in an email. “It was especially important to me that Martha doesn’t only go through the single most tragic moment of her entire life, but she also experiences the purest form of love she has ever known. Though she lost a child, she’s always a mother to the lost one; that love still remains inside her.”