Framing the Pivotal Scene The Long Take in ‘Pieces of a Woman’
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorCinematographer Benjamin Loeb received the script for “Pieces of a Woman” from director Kornél Mundruczó in August 2018.Loeb, whose credits include “Mandy,” spoke with Mundruczó not about specificities about the loss of a child, grief and what the film would look like, but about their families, experiences and birth.For Loeb, the words were the backbone of his vision.“It wasn’t trauma porn and the idea of someone using this [trauma] in the wrong way,” were what connected him to the film.“The main reason why we wanted to shoot the birth first was that there was no way for us to ask the actors to go to this incredibly dark place without learning what that dark place means.