Women Talking
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Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. A group of women in an isolated Mennonite community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith after a string of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men. This film is based on the novel, 'Women Talking' by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. Toews describes her novel as 'a reaction through fiction' to the true-life events that took place on the Manitoba Colony, a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Claire Foy
Director: Sarah Polley
Writer: Sarah Polley
Running Time: 104 minutes
Certificate: 15 - Sexual Violence, Domestic Abuse
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Country: United States
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
“A tale that is at once timely and timeless.”
★★★★★ Mark Kermode, Observer
“Even more incredible, given the subject matter, is that so much of what this group say and do, as they gather in a hayloft, is insouciant and funny.”
★★★★★ Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard
“Quietly, confidently and without fanfare, Polley has made the first piece of great post-MeToo cinema. What it depicts, and a homogenising hashtag doesn’t, is that there is no singular response to abuse.”
★★★★★ Jessie Thompson, Independant
“the film is beautifully performed and gripping in a chewy, nuanced, contemplative way...”
★★★★ Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph
“It’s heavy material, and it might have sunk the movie had Polley not buoyed it with such a knockout cast.”
★★★★ Kevin Maher, Times
“A remarkable ensemble of performers unite for this combustible, timely chamber-piece that hails the return of Polley as an ambitious and empirical filmmaker.”
★★★★Beth Webb, Empire Magazine
“Polley never condescends to us by spelling it out, but the film lands both as timeless and acutely relevant in 2023.”
★★★★ Danny Leigh, Financial Times"Lovers of the novels of Marilynne Robinson will swoon over the film’s pacing. Its aesthetic is just as quietly bold.”
★★★★★ Charlotte O'Sullivan, London Evening Standard
“Quietly, confidently and without fanfare, Polley has made the first piece of great post-MeToo cinema. What it depicts, and a homogenising hashtag doesn’t, is that there is no singular response to abuse.”
★★★★★ Jessie Thompson, Independent (UK)
“The film is beautifully performed and gripping in a chewy, nuanced, contemplative way...”
★★★★ Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph
“A remarkable ensemble of performers unite for this combustible, timely chamber-piece that hails the return of Polley as an ambitious and empirical filmmaker.”
★★★★ Beth Webb, Empire Magazine
“Women Talking imagines female emancipation as an honest, raging, caring experience.”
★★★★ Anna Bogutskaya, Time Out
“This empathy translates to the viewer, and by the cathartic ending scenes it’s impossible not to feel real emotion for this fictional community.”
★★★★ Emily Zemler, Observer
