Women Talking - Reviews

As the film’s ending powerfully indicates, Women Talking must not be the final word. Our discourse must only carry on.

The exercise of female self-determination in Women Talking ticks profoundly in a post-Dobbs world in which a woman’s ability to choose her destiny is significantly circumscribed.

...is about as direct as cinema gets in portraying the complexities and nuances of the feminist struggle...

A remarkable ensemble of performers unite for this combustible, timely chamber-piece that hails the return of Polley as an ambitious and empirical filmmaker.

A staggering ensemble cast led by Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley & Claire Foy powers Sarah Polley's surprisingly hopeful story of a religious colony in crisis.

An atmosphere of empathy, reason and wit pervades Polley’s film, underwritten by an emancipatory urgency (“that day we learned to vote”) that drives the narrative even in its darkest moments.

...there is a sustained moral seriousness in Polley’s work, a willingness to confront pain.

...an impassioned new drama from actor turned director Sarah Polley...

...a brilliantly performed tribute to the power of free will, debate, and justice in the face of oppression and violence.

...powerful and distressing drama cuts to the bone.

The real-life facts are beyond horrifying. Between 2005 and 2009, 150 women and young girls were drugged and then raped by men in their secluded Mennonite community in Bolivia.

...the debates about biological sex, violence and education are fascinating.

En provokativ och smart film som kommer rätt i tiden, med potential att bli en tidlös klassiker.