Sarah Snook and Benny Safdie Join ‘Pieces of a Woman’ From 'White Dog' Director

Deadline is reporting Sarah Snook (“Succession”) and Benny Safdie (co-writer/director of “Uncut Gems”) have joined the cast of Hungarian filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó’s latest, “Pieces of a Woman.” This is very exciting news indeed.

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The film, which Deadline describes as following “a grieving woman who is thrust into an emotional inner journey by trying to come to terms with the loss of her baby after a home birth goes wrong, while dealing with her husband and estranged mother,” also stars Shia LaBeouf, Vanessa Kirby, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Jimmie Fails and Iliza Shlesinger.

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Mundruczó is the Cannes Un Certain Regard winner for “White Godwhohas flirted with mainstream Hollywood filmmaking before (at one point he was attached to direct horror thriller “Deeper” with Bradley Cooper from a script by, um, Max Landis). “Pieces of a Woman” seems like it could be something of a mainstream breakthrough (that cast!) while still staying true to his artistic integrity(the script is by his frequent collaborator Kata Wéber).