‘The World To Come’ First Look Clip: Vanessa Kirby & Katherine Waterston’s Love Story Is Way Ahead Of Its Time

Katherine Waterston has quietly developed one of the most diverse resumes of any actress in her generation. She is equally at home in an intimate feature such as the upcoming “The World to Come,” which premiered at Venice, as she is in a blockbuster like “Alien: Covenant” or “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” And she’s currently co-starring in the acclaimed HBO series “The Third Day,” in which she plays the mysterious Jess, a visitor to the ominous Osea Island.

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Also Read: Venice Winner 'Pieces of a Woman' Picked up by Netflix in Worldwide DealCasey Affleck and Christopher Abbott co-star in the film. Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard wrote the screenplay.

Vanessa Kirby wears her face mask while walking around the city after lunch on Sunday (September 13) in Venice, Italy.

The same day Vanessa Kirby wins the award for Best Actress at the 2020 Venice Film Festival for her portrayal in Kornél Mundruczó‘s drama “Pieces of a Woman,” Netflix closes a worldwide distribution deal for the lauded film.

Vanessa Kirby holds her trophy while accepting the Best Actress award during the closing ceremony of the 2020 Venice Film Festival on Saturday (September 12) in Venice, Italy.

With a much different than usual Venice Film Festival now come to a close, it’s time for the annual awards ceremony that marks the beginning of the awards season, whatever that means in this strange year.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNetflix has swept up a worldwide distribution deal for the resonant festival drama “Pieces of a Woman,” lauded for its leading performances from Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf.The harrowing drama about a couple struggling after a failed home birth is the English-language debut of Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIsabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca” is a visually gorgeous drama from the auteur filmmaker who also stars in the film, now streaming on Netflix.Sandoval plays Olivia, an undocumented Filipina trans woman who spends her days working as a caretaker for Olga (the late Lynn Cohen).

For Vanessa Kirby, the 2020 Venice Film Festival has been a case of veni, vidi, vici: she came, she saw, she blew 'em away. The British actress, best known for her turn as Princess Margaret in Netflix's The Crown and supporting roles inHobbs & Shaw and the Mission: Impossible franchise, wowed the Venice arthouse crowd with her performances in competition titles Pieces of a Woman and The World To Come.

Vanessa Kirby wears a plunging black suit for the premiere of her new movie The World to Come on Sunday (September 6) in Venice, Italy.

Over a year after Adèle Haenel and Noémie Merlant loosed each other’s corsets and fell in love in a French Cannes film, and less than a week before Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are due to do the same in coastal England at TIFF, Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby play American, mid-19th century secret lesbian lovers in Mona Fastvold‘s Venice competition title “The World to Come,” a beautiful and quiet, seasons-spanning tale of poetry and pining pioneerwomen.

Filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó is no stranger to the film festival circuit, with his 2005 film “Johanna” screening at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, before “White God” took home the Prize Un Certain Regard later in 2014. “White God” was even selected to be Hungary’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.

Vanessa Kirby is the lady in red while attending the premiere of her movie Pieces of a Woman during the 2020 Venice Film Festival on Saturday (September 5) in Venice, Italy.

Also Read: 'The Tax Collector' Film Review: Shia LaBeouf Got His Torso Tattooed for This?Where that film was bizarrely fantastical but dramatically scattered, “Pieces of a Woman” is grounded and intensely personal. Much of that is due to the towering and heartbreaking performance by Kirby (best known for playing Princess Anne on the TV series “The Crown”), who makes Martha’s debilitating pain visible even when she’s trying desperately to hide it.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticOne can imagine an American director such as Norman Jewison or Sidney Lumet directing a film about the legal battle at the heart of “Pieces of a Woman”: A terrible tragedy has occurred, and an expectant young Boston couple (played by Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf) have taken their midwife (Molly Parker) to court. The media are all over the story, which casts the entire practice of home birth into question.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorVanessa Kirby, who has two movies at the Venice Film Festival, today hit the Lido to talk about Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces Of A Woman. The film tells the story of a couple whose home birth goes devastatingly wrong, resulting in the loss of their child, and deeply explores the mother-daughter relationship.

Brady Corbet is a filmmaker that seems to always gain our attention whenever he prepares a new film for release. He has a knack for putting together a talented cast for a project that always sounds interesting on paper.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Joel Edgerton (Loving), Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies), Sebastian Stan (Captain America) and Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) are among the all-star cast set for Brady Corbet’s (Vox Lux) sweeping immigrant drama The Brutalist, we can reveal.Also among the impressive ensemble will be Isaach De Bankolé (Black Panther), Alessandro Nivola (American Hustle), Raffey Cassidy (The Killing Of A Sacred