T.S. Eliot once wrote that what we call the beginning is oftentimes the end, while making an end is often a beginning. Pieces of a Woman, now playing on Netflix, features one of the most stunning beginnings seen in film over the past year, a bravura piece of filmmaking that heightens in intensity as the camera floats in long tracking shots between rooms and individuals. It takes a natural act, that of childbirth, and makes it both obscenely fraught with tension and beautiful