Official Trailer
Our Review
- Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Frances McDormand
- February 10th 2023
- Sarah Polley
Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, and Jessie Buckley debate the best course of action for women in their community after a series of attacks.
Sarah Polley’s ensemble drama Women Talking is currently nominated for the Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars. So, what’s it all about?
The film, which is described as an imagined response to real-life events, is set within a deeply religious community (they are Mennonites in Miriam Toews’ novel) where the women and girls are systemically drugged and raped by the men in their sleep.
After the latest incident, the men leave the colony for 48 hours to post bail for the attackers, and the women use this time to vote on what they should do – stay and do nothing, stay and fight, or leave.
After there is a tie between leave, and stay and fight, several women gather in a hayloft to debate the pros and cons of the options and make a definitive decision.
Women Talking does exactly what you might expect – it is a film about women sitting down and talking.
It feels like a play because it is dialogue-heavy...
