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Women Talking premiered at the 49th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2022, and was released in the United States via select theaters on December 23, 2022, before a wide release on January 27, 2023, by United Artists Releasing.
Women Talking: Directed by Sarah Polley. With Rooney Mara, Judith Ivey, Emily Mitchell, Kate Hallett. Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
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- Sarah Polley
- 2023-01-20
- The Real Story
- The Novel
- The Film Adaptation
The circumstances of the attacks that inspired Women Talking are nightmarish. For years, men in the Manitoba Colony used an anesthetic initially made for cattle to render girls and women unconscious and rape them. In 2009,one woman caught two of the attackerswhen she woke up during an assault. Initially, the men accused were punished by their own p...
Novelist Miriam Toews possesses a unique insight into the survivors’ lives. Toews was raised Mennonite in Manitoba, Canada, and has written multiple books about her background. Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. It’s an...
Polley is a director who is uniquely situated to the challenge of adapting this talky and often dense material. Having begun her career as a child actor on Canadian television and, later, in films, she pivoted into directing as a young adult, with movies that explored feminine desire. Her last feature was the 2012 documentary Stories We Tell, an ex...
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Dec 23, 2022 · Women Talking. 104 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2022. Sheila O'Malley. December 23, 2022. 6 min read. The real-life facts are beyond horrifying. Between 2005 and 2009, 150 women and young girls were drugged and then raped by men in their secluded Mennonite community in Bolivia.
Jan 6, 2023 · Culture. When a Single Conversation Can Mean Life or Death. Sarah Polley’s new film, Women Talking, is about “ending a world and creating a new one”—all in the space of a single debate. By...
Jan 20, 2023 · In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. Fandango at Home Prime Video Apple TV. Watch Women Talking with a...
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Jan 27, 2023 · Four young Mennonite girls in the colony of Manitoba, Bolivia, photographed in 2011. A scandal that involves over 140 rapes over the course of four years has shaken this community that lives by...
