Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó broke through internationally in 2014 with his snarling social parable about the downtrodden rising up against their oppressors, White Dog.
He puts aside political allegory to drill deep into the heart of family tragedy in his first English-language feature, Pieces of a Woman.
Puncturing a brittle European veneer with spikes of more American emotional volatility, the drama wears influences from Ingmar Bergman to John Cassavetes — not always lightly.
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