Hungarian filmmakers Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber have a reputation as fabulists. In the surreal opening scene of White God (2014), a young girl cycles through the eerily empty streets of Budapest, pursued by a pack of hundreds of dogs.
In Jupiter's Moon(2017), a refugee is shot by police as he tries to escape through the woods. Instead of falling, he, miraculously, begins to float, then fly.
So it comes as a surprise that screenwriter Weber and director Mundruczo have turned to raw realism for their English-language debut, Pieces of a Woman.
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