Promise. When I sat down for a screening of Women Talking, the new movie written and directed by Sarah Polley and based on the novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, I expected the intense ...

Set in 2010 and inspired by real events, "Women Talking" is adapted from Miriam Toews' 2018 novel. Like the book, the movie takes place almost entirely in a hayloft over 48 hours, as women of ...

Miriam Toews' novel Women Talking is drawn from events that came ... Both the novel and now Sarah Polley's superbly acted movie adaptation scrupulously avoid showing the attacks themselves.

But that “is sadly where life resides.” Just as a war movie can encourage its audience to appreciate heroism and sacrifice, Women Talking reminds us of the value of language—its capacity ...

“Women Talking” is refreshingly different ... driven by a man working on behalf of the 2010 census. (The movie’s logline also states it’s set in 2010 — best we not become preoccupied ...

Sarah Polley’s Oscar-nominated “Woman Talking ... first scene of the movie, it comes back much later in the film,” Donaldson says. “We used it when he’s talking about the boys and ...

Women Talking finds Ona (Rooney Mara), Salome (Claire Foy), Mariche (Jessie Buckley), Scarface Janz (Frances McDormand), and others confronting the danger that they’ve dealt with for far too long.

The movie is a vital piece of work that is ingeniously ... She started by making a joke about The Academy not being offended by the words Women and Talking being in the same title, and then ...

Women Talking opens in limited theaters on Dec. 23 before going into wide release on Jan. 6. To say that a film feels like a Twitter thread is rarely a good thing — see also: the middling Harvey ...

“Women Talking” is both horrifying and thrilling ... which the text is delivered doesn’t entirely do it justice. The movie is set in 2010, on a farm in Canada that’s also a closed ...