Brings you to tears, makes your blood boil
Writer and director Sarah Polley’s new film, Women Talking , based on Miriam Toews’ book, is a devastating exploration of abuse and sexual violence, trauma and women’s oppression — and resistance. In an isolated religious community, a group of men have been drugging and raping the women and girls for years. Women have long been excluded from education, silenced, and kept disempowered, some domestically abused. Women Talking ’s opening declaration, “What follows is an act of female imagination”, alludes to the response of the village elders to the attacks. The attacks were dismissed as either...