“I used to wonder who I would be if this hadn’t happened to me,” the young narrator of Sarah Polley’s Women Talking muses early on. The film quickly abandons that question, though, in favor of a more interesting one: Who will this child, and the other women of this drama, …
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Some want to stand their ground and fight — after all, this is their home, too. Many want to leave and start anew. There’s an option to vote for doing nothing, but really, the days of simply enduring and ignoring are long gone. The choices that a group of women …
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Compromise and community are key to building a better future in the latest trailer for Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. The film, an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name, centers on an isolated religious community where the women there find that they are each other’s only support system …
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