While the men are away, a group of women congregates in a barn to try and figure out what their next course of action should be: should they do nothing, stay and fight, or leave the colony for good?
After two young girls see one of the male attackers leave one night, several of the men in the community are arrested, while the others head into town to pay the incarcerated men’s bail. Written by Polley and based on the Miriam Toews book of the same name, Women Talking says early on that “what follows is an act of female imagination.” The women of an unnamed religious community have long been drugged and raped during the night, believing that these attacks were a punishment for their misdeeds from a greater entity. But as we watch this story of women trying to decide how to handle their futures, their faith, and their freedoms going forward, this palette almost reminds us that these women won’t see the true beauty of the world until they are equal and free from the world that has held them down for so long. During a screening of the film at TIFF, Polley stated that the powerful cinematography from Luc Montpellier represented a time long past, almost like the movie we’re about to see is already a memory.
The colors are muted, almost faded, like a memory half-remembered.
Women Talking Review: Sarah Polley Crafts a Captivating Conversationįrom the very opening of Women Talking, the first film from Sarah Polley since 2012’s Stories We Tell, it’s clear the world of this movie isn’t right.
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