“Women Talking” is simply weeks away from hitting theaters. “Where I come from, where your mother comes from, we didn’t talk about our bodies,” we’re informed in a brand new trailer for Sarah Polley’s extremely anticipated awards contender. Based on Miriam Toews’ novel of the identical title, “Women Talking” is impressed by actual occasions and tells the story of a distant spiritual colony in disaster. A sequence of assaults have been perpetuated towards the the neighborhood’s women and girls. In the wake of widespread sexual assault, the ladies band collectively to determine their future. “We hardly knew how to read or write, but that day we learned how to vote,” a voiceover explains. They are selecting between three totally different choices: do nothing, keep and struggle, or depart.
One girl worries that they are going to “forfeit” their place in heaven relying on which route they go. Another fears that she’ll “become a murderer” if she stays.
“I imagined this film in the realm of a fable,” Polley reveals in her director’s assertion. “While the story in the film is specific to a small religious community, I felt that it needed a large canvas, an epic scope through which to reflect the enormity and universality of the questions raised in the film. To this end, it felt imperative that the visual language of the film breathe and expand. I wanted to feel in every frame the endless potential and possibility contained in a conversation about how to remake a broken world.”
“Women Talking’s” ensemble forged consists of Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, and Claire Foy. McDormand is a four-time Oscar winner who was final seen in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.” Mara landed nods for “Carol” and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Buckley was nominated for finest supporting actress this yr for “The Lost Daughter.” Foy gained an Emmy for “The Crown.”
Polley’s function directing debut, 2006’s “Away From Her,” landed her an Oscar nod for tailored screenplay. Her different movies embody 2011 Michelle Williams-starrer “Take This Waltz” and 2012 doc “Stories We Tell.” Polley acquired a DGA Award nomination for the latter. “Dawn of the Dead” and “The Sweet Hereafter” are amongst her on-screen credit.
“Women Talking” hits choose theaters December 25 and opens broad January 20.