With a superb cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley, Sarah Polley's bracing adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel tells the story of a Mennonite community rocked by sexual violence.
— a title that sounds like an echo of this movie’s — was the product of an adventurous and democratic sensibility, alive to the dizzying complexities of narratives and of the storytellers who spin them.“Women Talking,” though seemingly more straightforward, abounds in its own furiously contradictory points of view. Consensus seems impossible, even among the eight women — grandmothers, mothers and daughters from two different families — who have been elected to make a collective decision.
Rooney Mara, from left, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Jessie Buckley in the movie “Women Talking.” There is no shortage of rhetorical force — or sharp, acerbic humor — to be harvested from these ideas, but Polley never lets the dialogue tilt too far into abstraction. “Women Talking” may be something of a thought experiment , but the stakes and consequences are hardly theoretical.
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