A young woman sleeping alone in bed wakes to find bruises and wounds on her hips and upper inner thighs—injuries sustained from rape. In 2010, the women and girls of an isolated Mennonite colony discover that the men have been using livestock tranquilizer to subdue and rape them.

2022年9月14日 · 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 austere novel...

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.

2022年12月23日 · In her fictionalized version, all the men of the community head to town to put up bail for their arrested brethren. The women meet in the barn and discuss their options, boiled down to three: 1.) Do nothing 2.) Stay and fight 3.) Leave the community. They debate the subject for a day and a half.

2023年2月21日 · Embodied by some outstanding performers (The Crown’s Claire Foy is absolutely riveting as Salome), these women talk about their lives, their futures, their God-given roles and their God. They talk with raw candor: They rage at the evils they’ve suffered and the evils they’ve lived with.

2022年9月3日 · Adapted from Miriam Toews' novel, director Sarah Polley's tough, uncompromising 'Women Talking' stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley as abuse survivors in a cloistered Mennonite...

Women Talking is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley. It is based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, and inspired by the gas-facilitated rapes that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia.[1]

Women Talking is a profound and thought-provoking drama from 2022, directed by Sarah Polley and based on the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. The film boasts a powerhouse of talent with stars like Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Jessie Buckley, who deliver gripping performances that anchor the movie’s emotionally charged narrative.

The women had been told they were being violated by ghosts, demons, or even Satan himself — punishment for their own improprieties — and they believed that lie until two young girls saw one of the rapists as he scurried back to bed across the field one night.