![]() ![]() ![]() For years, women were raped persistently by eight colony men while they slept the horrific acts in the small Christian community were attributed to. ![]() Crafted with a tender but unflinching touch by Polley-also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay-the film is a faithful, courageous re-telling of Miriam Toews’ 2018 book of the same name.īased on the true story of a Mennonite colony in Bolivia, Women Talking follows eight main characters portrayed by Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy, Judith Ivey, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, and Michelle McLeod. Both the book and film Women Talking was reportedly inspired by real-life events that occurred at the remote Manitoba Colony, an ultraconservative Mennonite community in eastern Bolivia. ![]() A pleasant surprise on this year’s Best Picture nominees list, director Sarah Polley’s Women Talking might not have stirred the same buzz as its fellow competitors, but it’d be a painful shame to overlook the project based on hype alone. ![]()
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