Women Talking 2022
- Director: Sarah Polley
- Seen by this director: Away from Her
- Based on the book by Miriam Toews
- Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Sheila McCarthy, Ben Whishaw
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Rooney Mara – Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Social Network
- Claire Foy – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, First Man, Breathe, The Lady in the Van, Wolf Hall, Being Human
- Jessie Buckley – Judy, Chernobyl, Wild Rose, The Tempest
- Frances McDormand - many
- Sheila McCarthy – Orphan Black, Antiviral, Being Julia, Day after Tomorrow, I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing
- Ben Whishaw – No Time to Die, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London Spies, Spectre, Suffragette, Skyfall, Cloud Atlas, Richard II, The Tempest, Bright Star, Layer Cake
- Why? The subject
- Seen: 8 March 2024
The women of a religious sect are drugged
and sexually abused regularly by some of the men, who are finally caught and
arrested. The sect’s men start raising bail for their release. The women must
quickly decide: forgive them, not forgive them and be banished from the sect
and heaven, stay and fight, or leave.
That’s what they’re talking about.
Believe it or not, this is based on true events, not
in the 16th century, not in the 1950s, but less than 20 years ago.
Though extreme, the conflict these women are talking
about here is relevant to our whole society.
The cast is outstanding.
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