Sarah Polley won her first Oscar for her Women Talking.
“First of all, just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that,” she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay).
“Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. They do so not just by talking but also by listening,” she added.
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Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category.
The win prevented...
“First of all, just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words women and talking with so close together like that,” she said as her film won the award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay).
“Miriam Toews wrote an essential novel about a radical democracy in which people who don’t agree on every single issue managed to sit together in a room and carve out a way forward together free of violence. They do so not just by talking but also by listening,” she added.
Related: ‘Women Talking’: Read The Screenplay By Sarah Polley That Takes On Remaking “A Broken World”
Women Talking, which came from Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing, beat All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Living and Top Gun: Maverick in the category.
The win prevented...
- 3/13/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Everything Everywhere All at Once won big at this year’s Independent Spirit Awards, taking home seven awards out of eight nominations. The only award it didn’t win was, interestingly enough, one it did win, as Ke Huy Quan beat Jamie Lee Curtis in the Best Supporting Performance category.
Here are the winners of winners of the 38th Independent Spirit Awards:
Movies:
Best Feature:
Bones and All
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Our Father, The Devil
Tár
Women Talking
Best Director:
Todd Field, Tár
Kogonada, After Yang
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Halina Reijn, Bodies Bodies Bodies
Best First Feature:
Aftersun
Emily the Criminal
The Inspection
Murina
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Best Lead Performance:
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Dale Dickey, A Love Song
Mia Goth, Pearl
Regina Hall, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Aubrey Plaza, Emily the Criminal
Jeremy Pope,...
Here are the winners of winners of the 38th Independent Spirit Awards:
Movies:
Best Feature:
Bones and All
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Our Father, The Devil
Tár
Women Talking
Best Director:
Todd Field, Tár
Kogonada, After Yang
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Halina Reijn, Bodies Bodies Bodies
Best First Feature:
Aftersun
Emily the Criminal
The Inspection
Murina
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Best Lead Performance:
Cate Blanchett, Tár
Dale Dickey, A Love Song
Mia Goth, Pearl
Regina Hall, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
Paul Mescal, Aftersun
Aubrey Plaza, Emily the Criminal
Jeremy Pope,...
- 3/5/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
The Film Independent Spirit Awards selected A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once as its Best Feature on Saturday to culminate its 38th edition, one of seven wins for the metaverse-set pic that solidifies its frontrunner status in one of the last major awards stops ahead of March 12’s Academy Awards.
Everything, which had a leading eight nominations coming into daytime ceremony on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier, also scored wins for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu in the awards’ inaugural gender-neutral performance categories across film and TV. The film also won for The Daniels’ directing and screenplay, and for Paul Rogers’ editing.
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Everything, which had a leading eight nominations coming into daytime ceremony on the beach at the Santa Monica Pier, also scored wins for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu in the awards’ inaugural gender-neutral performance categories across film and TV. The film also won for The Daniels’ directing and screenplay, and for Paul Rogers’ editing.
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- 3/5/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo Credit: Allyson Riggs / A24)
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan became the first Asian actress and actor to win Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role/Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Everything Everywhere All at Once also scored wins in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories.
SAG members spread out the wins in the television categories, with The White Lotus the only nominee to earn multiple awards. Additional 29th Annual SAG Awards television winners included Abbott Elementary, 1883, The Bear, Hacks, George & Tammy, and Ozark.
This year’s SAG Awards took place in Los Angeles and streamed live on YouTube on February...
- 2/27/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
There is a utopian dream at the heart of Sarah Polley’s Best Picture nominee “Women Talking.” It’s right there in the title, sort of.
“The most exciting thing are the reports I’m getting about people having to be kicked out of the theater because a bunch of strangers talk to each other,” Polley told IndieWire during a recent interview when asked about the responses to the film she’s enjoyed the most. “It’s literally the utopian dream for me, that this film would make people talk to each other who either didn’t know each other or didn’t agree on things.”
Not just women talking, people talking. But, yes, she does realize that the film’s title — the same title of as the Miriam Toews novel that Polley adapted for the screen; her screenplay is also nominated for an Oscar — might sound a little confrontational.
“The most exciting thing are the reports I’m getting about people having to be kicked out of the theater because a bunch of strangers talk to each other,” Polley told IndieWire during a recent interview when asked about the responses to the film she’s enjoyed the most. “It’s literally the utopian dream for me, that this film would make people talk to each other who either didn’t know each other or didn’t agree on things.”
Not just women talking, people talking. But, yes, she does realize that the film’s title — the same title of as the Miriam Toews novel that Polley adapted for the screen; her screenplay is also nominated for an Oscar — might sound a little confrontational.
- 2/23/2023
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Writer-director Sarah Polley and producer Dede Gardner joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees to discuss Women Talking, their film that is nominated for a pair of Oscars, for Best Picture and Polley’s adapted screenplay.
The all-star cast includes Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw. Plan B Entertainment, MGM’s Orion Pictures and hear/say produced the pic, which was released by United Artists Releasing.
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Women Talking follows the women of an isolated religious colony who reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men: for years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and raped them.
The all-star cast includes Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw. Plan B Entertainment, MGM’s Orion Pictures and hear/say produced the pic, which was released by United Artists Releasing.
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Women Talking follows the women of an isolated religious colony who reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men: for years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and raped them.
- 2/18/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced on January 11 in film and television, as voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. What will prevail in the category of Best Film Ensemble during Netflix’s YouTube ceremony on Sunday, February 26? This year’s five nominated movie casts are “Babylon,” “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Fabelmans” and “Women Talking.”
Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards Predictions for Best Film Ensemble, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years, and the mass of Users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.
Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards Predictions for Best Film Ensemble, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years, and the mass of Users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.
- 2/2/2023
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Even in the darkest times, there can still be laughter and joy. That's one of the lessons of Sarah Polley's "Women Talking," which used a sprawling ensemble cast to tell the story of Mennonite women who try to move forward together in the face of unbelievable trauma. The movie is nominated for three Oscars, including best picture. Three of the ensemble's younger members - Michelle McLeod, who plays Mejal; Kate Hallett, who plays Autje; and Liv McNeil, who plays Nietje - spoke to Popsugar about their experiences on set and why keeping laughter at the center of the weighty film was so important.
The movie, which went into wide release Jan. 20, has an all-star cast that includes Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Ben Whishaw, Judith Ivey, and Sheila McCarthy. Hallett confesses that working with so many legendary actors was "incredibly intimidating." But, she adds, "I was...
The movie, which went into wide release Jan. 20, has an all-star cast that includes Frances McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara, Ben Whishaw, Judith Ivey, and Sheila McCarthy. Hallett confesses that working with so many legendary actors was "incredibly intimidating." But, she adds, "I was...
- 2/1/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
(l-r) Rooney Mara stars as Ona, Claire Foy as Salome, Judith Ivey as Agata, Sheila McCarthy as Greta, Michelle McLeod as Mejal and Jessie Buckley as Mariche, in director Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking. An Orion Pictures Release. Photo credit: Michael Gibson. © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.
There is a lot of talk about Women Talking – awards talk. The title of this electrifying ensemble drama may suggest something tame but the fiery Women Talking is no polite, quiet chat but a deep, sarcastic, no-holds-barred, even funny, and thought-provoking discussion among a group of Mennonite women who are meeting secretly in a barn to talk about what to do after a series of brutal attacks on them.
Women in the colony have been waking up beaten, bloody and in pain, with no memory of what had happened. The men tell them they are being attacked by the devil, or...
There is a lot of talk about Women Talking – awards talk. The title of this electrifying ensemble drama may suggest something tame but the fiery Women Talking is no polite, quiet chat but a deep, sarcastic, no-holds-barred, even funny, and thought-provoking discussion among a group of Mennonite women who are meeting secretly in a barn to talk about what to do after a series of brutal attacks on them.
Women in the colony have been waking up beaten, bloody and in pain, with no memory of what had happened. The men tell them they are being attacked by the devil, or...
- 1/20/2023
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Content warning: This article contains references to widespread sexual assault depicted in the film "Women Talking."
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. Those are the three choices the women of "Women Talking" are faced with. Based on a true story, the new film by writer and director Sarah Polley tells the story of women in a fictional Mennonite colony who learn that some of the men in the community have been secretly drugging them and assaulting them during the night for years. When a woman would wake up confused, in pain, or bleeding, the men would tell them they'd been attacked by devils or demons. At the beginning of the movie, the women finally learn the truth. Police arrest the eight men responsible, and when almost all the colony's men head to town to bail them out, the women have to decide what to do, leaving them with the three choices.
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. Those are the three choices the women of "Women Talking" are faced with. Based on a true story, the new film by writer and director Sarah Polley tells the story of women in a fictional Mennonite colony who learn that some of the men in the community have been secretly drugging them and assaulting them during the night for years. When a woman would wake up confused, in pain, or bleeding, the men would tell them they'd been attacked by devils or demons. At the beginning of the movie, the women finally learn the truth. Police arrest the eight men responsible, and when almost all the colony's men head to town to bail them out, the women have to decide what to do, leaving them with the three choices.
- 1/12/2023
- by Victoria Edel
- Popsugar.com
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ (Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures © 2022 20th Century Studios)
The love for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once has spread to the Screen Actors Guild. Nominations for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and Banshees and Everything Everywhere topped the list on the film side, earning five SAG Awards nominations each.
The final season of Ozark led the TV nominations, picking up four nominations.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. This year marks the first time the SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning in 2024, the awards show will stream live on Netflix.
The 2023 SAG Awards recognize the best performances of 2022 in television and movies.
SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler...
The love for The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once has spread to the Screen Actors Guild. Nominations for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced and Banshees and Everything Everywhere topped the list on the film side, earning five SAG Awards nominations each.
The final season of Ozark led the TV nominations, picking up four nominations.
Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 5pm Pt/8pm Et. This year marks the first time the SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel. Beginning in 2024, the awards show will stream live on Netflix.
The 2023 SAG Awards recognize the best performances of 2022 in television and movies.
SAG Awards Motion Picture Nominees:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler...
- 1/11/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The Screen Actors Guild unveiled nominations Wednesday for its 29th annual SAG Awards as the movie awards season arrives full-steam, coming the same week as last night’s Golden Globes and Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards.
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The marquee ensemble film award category this year features Paramount’s Babylon, Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, Universal’s The Fabelmans and United Artists’ Women Talking. Banshees and Fabelmans are having a good week, having taken the top film prizes at last night’s Globes.
Banshees and Everything Everywhere led all films with five nominations apiece in today’s noms announcement.
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The marquee ensemble film award category this year features Paramount’s Babylon, Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin, A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, Universal’s The Fabelmans and United Artists’ Women Talking. Banshees and Fabelmans are having a good week, having taken the top film prizes at last night’s Globes.
Banshees and Everything Everywhere led all films with five nominations apiece in today’s noms announcement.
- 1/11/2023
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sarah Polley’s Women Talking features a large ensemble of accomplished and award-winning actresses, so it would not have been a surprise to see one (or several) take the stage Thursday at the Palm Springs Film Awards, where Polley was honored with a director of the year prize.
But instead it was Eric Idle, the Monty Python star, who presented Polley with her award. His appearance was especially profound for Polley as it provided a public reunion for the two co-stars from Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. “About 34 years ago, I was on the set of a movie in Rome and I said farewell to a little girl of 8 who starred in the movie,” Idle said. “We had all been scarred on this movie … going on nine months before we’d been able to escape.” Idle called some of the scenes “life-threatening.”
It has come to light...
But instead it was Eric Idle, the Monty Python star, who presented Polley with her award. His appearance was especially profound for Polley as it provided a public reunion for the two co-stars from Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. “About 34 years ago, I was on the set of a movie in Rome and I said farewell to a little girl of 8 who starred in the movie,” Idle said. “We had all been scarred on this movie … going on nine months before we’d been able to escape.” Idle called some of the scenes “life-threatening.”
It has come to light...
- 1/6/2023
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MGM’s Orion Pictures and Audible Theater have partnered for “Women Talking: An Evening of Wild Female Imagination,” a one night only special theatrical event at Audible’s off-Broadway Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City. The Jan. 9 event will feature director Sarah Polley and cast members Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Liv McNeil, August Winter and Kate Hallett for an evening showcasing three new works inspired by the film.
Playwrights Sandra Delgado, Ruth Tang and Brittany Allen have written pieces inspired by the film centered around the idea of women coming together to decide what’s best for their community. The evening will also include a conversation with Polley and the playwrights, led by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Heidi Schreck. Zoe Chao is also part of the program, performing a monologue by Brtittany Allen. Two-time Tony nominee Eva Noblezada will perform Billie Eilish’s “My Future.
Playwrights Sandra Delgado, Ruth Tang and Brittany Allen have written pieces inspired by the film centered around the idea of women coming together to decide what’s best for their community. The evening will also include a conversation with Polley and the playwrights, led by Tony Award nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Heidi Schreck. Zoe Chao is also part of the program, performing a monologue by Brtittany Allen. Two-time Tony nominee Eva Noblezada will perform Billie Eilish’s “My Future.
- 1/5/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
The ensemble cast of Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” is a hurricane of talent, from the palpable rage of Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley to the conflicted grief of Michelle McLeod and Kate Hallet. None, though, is perhaps as haunting in her simplicity and grace than Judith Ivey. The longtime stage and screen actor delivers a career-best performance.
As one of two matriarchs in a Mennonite colony ravaged by drugging and rape at the hands of their own men, Ivey navigates a violent and devastating betrayal with the perspective and empathy of a seasoned diplomat — without ever seeming cloying or, worse, in denial.
Variety recently sat with Ivey recently to discuss Polley’s landmark film, the challenges for women actors dealing with such intense source material, and how simply saying your line is the best acting tool.
How often does a part like this come around for you, as an actor?...
As one of two matriarchs in a Mennonite colony ravaged by drugging and rape at the hands of their own men, Ivey navigates a violent and devastating betrayal with the perspective and empathy of a seasoned diplomat — without ever seeming cloying or, worse, in denial.
Variety recently sat with Ivey recently to discuss Polley’s landmark film, the challenges for women actors dealing with such intense source material, and how simply saying your line is the best acting tool.
How often does a part like this come around for you, as an actor?...
- 12/23/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Some want to stand their ground and fight — after all, this is their home, too. Many want to leave and start anew. There’s an option to vote for doing nothing, but really, the days of simply enduring and ignoring are long gone. The choices that a group of women face in Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, her adaptation of Miriam Toews’ book, basically boil down to: Should they stay or should they go?
What has brought the various female members of a Mennonite community to this point is an epidemic.
What has brought the various female members of a Mennonite community to this point is an epidemic.
- 12/23/2022
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Women Talking Trailer 2 — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists has released the second movie trailer for Women Talking (2022). View here the first Women Talking movie trailer. Crew Sarah Polley‘s Women Talking stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, and Michelle McLeod. Sarah Polley wrote the [...]
Continue reading: Women Talking (2022) Movie Trailer 2: Women in a Violent Religious Community Decide to Stay & Fight, or Leave...
Continue reading: Women Talking (2022) Movie Trailer 2: Women in a Violent Religious Community Decide to Stay & Fight, or Leave...
- 12/17/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The following article includes references to domestic abuse and sexual assault. Please proceed with caution.
Sarah Polley has consistently been one of the most outspoken activists in Hollywood, and her directorial work often reflects her tireless dedication to justice. Her latest film, "Women Talking," is a confident, oftentimes difficult-to-watch drama about a group of Mennonite women in an isolated colony who are struggling with their faith and dedication to their religious practices after learning that they have all been repeatedly drugged and raped by the men in their community. Based on Miriam Toews' 2018 novel of the same name, "Women Talking" is tragically, loosely based on real-life events that took place at the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia. "Women Talking" has been buzzing since the early casting announcements of France McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Rooney Mara, but MGM has released a new trailer ahead of the film's release that should certainly keep everyone talking.
Sarah Polley has consistently been one of the most outspoken activists in Hollywood, and her directorial work often reflects her tireless dedication to justice. Her latest film, "Women Talking," is a confident, oftentimes difficult-to-watch drama about a group of Mennonite women in an isolated colony who are struggling with their faith and dedication to their religious practices after learning that they have all been repeatedly drugged and raped by the men in their community. Based on Miriam Toews' 2018 novel of the same name, "Women Talking" is tragically, loosely based on real-life events that took place at the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia. "Women Talking" has been buzzing since the early casting announcements of France McDormand, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Rooney Mara, but MGM has released a new trailer ahead of the film's release that should certainly keep everyone talking.
- 12/14/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
"We hardly knew how to read o to write, but that day, we learned how to vote." MGM / UA have unveiled a second official trailer for Women Talking, the acclaimed new film from writer / director Sarah Polley. After premiering at fall festivals and earning many awards nominations so far, it's opening in select theaters this December - before a wide release in January. Based on the book of the same name, this is about a group of women from an isolated religious community who come together to discuss their situation and grapple with their faith. "Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave." These are are the three choices they must debate and decide upon together. The film stars Rooney Mara as Ona, Claire Foy as Salome, Jessie Buckley as Mariche, Ben Whishaw as Augus, Frances McDormand as Scarface Janz, Judith Ivey as Agata, Sheila McCarthy as Greta, and Michelle McLeod as Mejal.
- 12/14/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Women Talking Review — Women Talking (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Sarah Polley, written by Miriam Toews and Sarah Polley and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Emily Mitchell, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kira Guloien, Shayla Brown, Vivien Endicott Douglas, August [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Women Talking (2022): Sarah Polley’s Film is an Artistic Triumph That Tackles Difficult Subject Matter...
Continue reading: Film Review: Women Talking (2022): Sarah Polley’s Film is an Artistic Triumph That Tackles Difficult Subject Matter...
- 11/23/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Harry Shum Jr. and Michelle Yeoh in A24’s ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ (Photo credit: Allyson Riggs)
Everything Everywhere All At Once tops the list of 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees, earning eight nominations including Best Feature, Best Director (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeo), Best Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu), and two in the Best Supporting Performance category. Director Todd Field’s Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renowned composer whose life is falling apart, followed with seven nominations including ones for Field and Blanchett.
The 2023 awards will mark the first time Film Independent has switched the performance categories to gender-neutral. The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards also introduces a new category: Best Breakthrough Performance.
“We couldn’t be more honored to celebrate this year’s exciting film nominees,” said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent. “As the Film Independent Spirit Awards evolve with our changing industry,...
Everything Everywhere All At Once tops the list of 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees, earning eight nominations including Best Feature, Best Director (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), Best Lead Performance (Michelle Yeo), Best Breakthrough Performance (Stephanie Hsu), and two in the Best Supporting Performance category. Director Todd Field’s Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renowned composer whose life is falling apart, followed with seven nominations including ones for Field and Blanchett.
The 2023 awards will mark the first time Film Independent has switched the performance categories to gender-neutral. The 38th Film Independent Spirit Awards also introduces a new category: Best Breakthrough Performance.
“We couldn’t be more honored to celebrate this year’s exciting film nominees,” said Josh Welsh, President of Film Independent. “As the Film Independent Spirit Awards evolve with our changing industry,...
- 11/23/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Celebrating its 38th edition, the Film Independent Spirit Awards have unveiled their 2023 nominations, with the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once leading the pack with eight nominations while Todd Field’s TÁR secured seven. Along with those two, rounding out the Best Feature nominations were Bones and All, Our Father, the Devil, and Women Talking. Elsewhere, some of our favorites of the year––including Aftersun, Murina, The African Desperate, The Cathedral, After Yang, All That Breathes, Saint Omer, and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed––were recognized.
Check out the nominations below ahead of the March 4 ceremony.
Best Feature (Award given to the producer)
Bones and All
Producers: Timothée Chalamet, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Luca Guadagnino, David Kajganich, Lorenzo Mieli, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, Theresa Park, Peter Spears
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Producers: Daniel Kwan, Mike Larocca, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang
Our Father, the Devil
Producers: Ellie Foumbi,...
Check out the nominations below ahead of the March 4 ceremony.
Best Feature (Award given to the producer)
Bones and All
Producers: Timothée Chalamet, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Luca Guadagnino, David Kajganich, Lorenzo Mieli, Marco Morabito, Gabriele Moratti, Theresa Park, Peter Spears
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Producers: Daniel Kwan, Mike Larocca, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang
Our Father, the Devil
Producers: Ellie Foumbi,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Sarah Polley will receive the Director of the Year Award for “Women Talking” at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, which will take place in-person on Jan. 5 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The Palm Springs Film Festival runs through Jan. 16.
“Sarah Polley continues her outstanding work as a writer and director in her latest film ‘Women Talking.’ She brings together a stellar cast in her adaptation of the Miriam Toews book, taking us on a cinematic journey filled with raw emotions and performances,” said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner.
Past recipients of the Director of the Year Award include Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”), Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Mc Queen (“12 Years a Slave”), Alexander Payne (“Sideways”), Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air'”), David O. Russell (“The Fighter”), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) and Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) who all went on to receive Best Director Academy Award nominations.
“Sarah Polley continues her outstanding work as a writer and director in her latest film ‘Women Talking.’ She brings together a stellar cast in her adaptation of the Miriam Toews book, taking us on a cinematic journey filled with raw emotions and performances,” said Festival Chairman Harold Matzner.
Past recipients of the Director of the Year Award include Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”), Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Steve Mc Queen (“12 Years a Slave”), Alexander Payne (“Sideways”), Jason Reitman (“Up in the Air'”), David O. Russell (“The Fighter”), Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) and Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) who all went on to receive Best Director Academy Award nominations.
- 11/18/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
MGM and United Artists Releasing have revealed their acting submissions for all of their titles, particularly “Bones and All,” “Till” and “Women Talking.”
“Women Talking,” written and directed by Sarah Polley, has opted to put Rooney Mara up in the best actress category while the rest of her female co-stars — Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, August Winter, Kira Guloien and Shayla Brown — will campaign in supporting actress. The most prominent male actor in the film, Ben Whishaw, will be the only one campaigning for best supporting actor.
Mara enters a very stacked lead actress race that includes Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Viola Davis (“The Woman King”) and Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”). The universal acclaim for the film adaptation of the popular book could help propel her into the fold, especially given her two prior nominations for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
“Women Talking,” written and directed by Sarah Polley, has opted to put Rooney Mara up in the best actress category while the rest of her female co-stars — Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, August Winter, Kira Guloien and Shayla Brown — will campaign in supporting actress. The most prominent male actor in the film, Ben Whishaw, will be the only one campaigning for best supporting actor.
Mara enters a very stacked lead actress race that includes Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Viola Davis (“The Woman King”) and Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”). The universal acclaim for the film adaptation of the popular book could help propel her into the fold, especially given her two prior nominations for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
- 10/19/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
One of the last big questions surrounding this year’s Oscar acting categories has been answered: “Women Talking” star Rooney Mara will be campaigned for Best Actress, sources close to the campaign confirmed to IndieWire.
As there are no official rules from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences concerning which actor goes into what categories — it’s more of an honor system instead — this year in particular has seen lead and/or supporting actors moving all over the place in an effort to be campaigned where they will most likely receive an Oscar nomination.
Though Sarah Polley’s drama, which follows Mennonite women trying to make the decision on whether to leave or fight after the revelation that many of their colony’s men have been raping them over the course of years, is an ensemble piece, the film does lay the groundwork for Mara to be viewed as the lead.
As there are no official rules from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences concerning which actor goes into what categories — it’s more of an honor system instead — this year in particular has seen lead and/or supporting actors moving all over the place in an effort to be campaigned where they will most likely receive an Oscar nomination.
Though Sarah Polley’s drama, which follows Mennonite women trying to make the decision on whether to leave or fight after the revelation that many of their colony’s men have been raping them over the course of years, is an ensemble piece, the film does lay the groundwork for Mara to be viewed as the lead.
- 10/19/2022
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Black Adam, Halloween Ends, The Watcher and the New York Film Festival.
New York Film Festival
The annual film fest continued its second week at Lincoln Center with screenings for Women Talking, Armageddon Time, She Said and The Inspection.
Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Michelle McLeod, Sheila McCarthy, Sarah Polley, Rooney Mara, Kate Hallett and Liv McNeil attend the red carpet event for ‘Women Talking’ on Oct. 10 in New York City. Producer Marc Butan, Focus Features vice chairman Jason Cassidy, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway, director James Gray, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Focus Features president of production and acquisitions Kiska Higgs, Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski and producer Rodrigo Teixeira at the ‘Armageddon Time’ screening on Oct. 12. Jodi Kantor, Zoe Kazan, Megan Twohey and Carey Mulligan attend the red...
New York Film Festival
The annual film fest continued its second week at Lincoln Center with screenings for Women Talking, Armageddon Time, She Said and The Inspection.
Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Michelle McLeod, Sheila McCarthy, Sarah Polley, Rooney Mara, Kate Hallett and Liv McNeil attend the red carpet event for ‘Women Talking’ on Oct. 10 in New York City. Producer Marc Butan, Focus Features vice chairman Jason Cassidy, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway, director James Gray, Banks Repeta, Jaylin Webb, Focus Features president of production and acquisitions Kiska Higgs, Focus Features chairman Peter Kujawski and producer Rodrigo Teixeira at the ‘Armageddon Time’ screening on Oct. 12. Jodi Kantor, Zoe Kazan, Megan Twohey and Carey Mulligan attend the red...
- 10/14/2022
- by Kirsten Chuba
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Women Talking Trailer — Sarah Polley‘s Women Talking (2022) movie trailer has been released by MGM and United Artists. The Women Talking trailer stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, and Michelle McLeod. Crew Sarah Polley wrote the screenplay for Women Talking. Plot Synopsis Women Talking‘s plot synopsis: best-selling Continue reading: Women Talking (2022) Movie Trailer: Sarah Polley’s Film Adaptation stars Frances McDormand & Rooney Mara...
- 10/10/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Hope for the unknown is good, it's better than hatred of the familiar." MGM / UA have debuted the official trailer for Women Talking, the highly acclaimed new film from writer / director Sarah Polley (Away From Her and Take This Waltz). It just premiered at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, and is also playing at the New York Film Festival and London Film Festival right now. Based on the book of the same name, this is about a group of women from an isolated religious community who come together to discuss their situation and grapple with their faith. It's a powerful story of what to do when men are controlling and violent and yet you don't think you can leave them. The film stars Rooney Mara as Ona, Claire Foy as Salome, Jessie Buckley as Mariche, Ben Whishaw as August Epp, Frances McDormand as Scarface Janz, Judith Ivey as Agata,...
- 10/10/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Warning: The following contains references to sexual assault.
Following a strong run on the film festival circuit, Sarah Polley's drama "Women Talking" is getting a theatrical release by United Artists Releasing. This is a difficult story: It's an account of victimized women within an insular community trying to take back their power, despite being at a significant — and purposeful — disadvantage. Only men are allowed to receive an education and take leadership roles within this settlement, and as a direct result of the systemic sexism running rampant through the population, the core values of their faith have been corrupted. Men have been violently sexually assaulting the women and children, and if nothing is done, this behavior will certainly continue.
"Women Talking" is what the title implies: a story centered around women talking about their situation and trying to plan their next move. The film is an adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel of the same name,...
Following a strong run on the film festival circuit, Sarah Polley's drama "Women Talking" is getting a theatrical release by United Artists Releasing. This is a difficult story: It's an account of victimized women within an insular community trying to take back their power, despite being at a significant — and purposeful — disadvantage. Only men are allowed to receive an education and take leadership roles within this settlement, and as a direct result of the systemic sexism running rampant through the population, the core values of their faith have been corrupted. Men have been violently sexually assaulting the women and children, and if nothing is done, this behavior will certainly continue.
"Women Talking" is what the title implies: a story centered around women talking about their situation and trying to plan their next move. The film is an adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel of the same name,...
- 10/10/2022
- by Sarah Milner
- Slash Film
Women Talking TIFF Special Presentations Section Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Sarah Polley Writer: Sarah Polley Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod Screened at: TIFF Bell Lightbox, Ontario, 9/17/22 Opens: September 13th, 2022 (Toronto International Film Festival) It can be fascinating to […]
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- 9/19/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
With Women Talking, Sarah Polley adapts Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel in a way that feels like a response to the last several years. The book, which concerns women in a Mennonite colony deciding whether to leave their community and the men who spent years assaulting and raping them, published after the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the formation of the #MeToo movement, which made its subject and themes reverberate around topics that were, and still are, at the forefront of media and public discourse. Polley leans hard into the bigger ideas, making her film less of a chamber piece and more a fumbled commentary on where we are now. Schematic in its intent and pedestrian in its execution, Women Talking is a well-meaning drama that’s obvious in all the wrong ways.
Women Talking largely takes place in the hayloft of the village’s barn, where two families of women gather...
Women Talking largely takes place in the hayloft of the village’s barn, where two families of women gather...
- 9/10/2022
- by C.J. Prince
- The Film Stage
Sarah Polley, at the Telluride Film Festival for the world premiere of Women Talking, her latest film as a director, acknowledged how lucky she was as an actress to have worked with so many female filmmakers. They told her to be “fierce” when they saw that she wanted to work behind the camera.
Women Talking, based on Miriam Toew’s celebrated novel about a group of Mennonite women having to confront sexual assaults committed by men feeding their desires, is a powerhouse exploration of the female imagination.
“This film began with three women talking a lot,” Polley said. She was referring to Dede Gardner as producer through Plan B Entertainment, and Frances McDormand as a cast member and producer via her Hear/Say Productions, and Polley herself.
Polley cited three female directors she’d worked with who helped pave the way for her as a director: Audrey Wells on her 1999 feature Guinevere; Kathryn Bigelow,...
Women Talking, based on Miriam Toew’s celebrated novel about a group of Mennonite women having to confront sexual assaults committed by men feeding their desires, is a powerhouse exploration of the female imagination.
“This film began with three women talking a lot,” Polley said. She was referring to Dede Gardner as producer through Plan B Entertainment, and Frances McDormand as a cast member and producer via her Hear/Say Productions, and Polley herself.
Polley cited three female directors she’d worked with who helped pave the way for her as a director: Audrey Wells on her 1999 feature Guinevere; Kathryn Bigelow,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
“Women Talking” premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday immediately after a warm tribute to director Sarah Polley, and the response confirmed its Oscar bonafides. However, Polley’s riveting look at a group of Mennonite women who mobilize against the rapists in their community presents a challenge for distributor UA/MGM as its busy ensemble could end up competing with itself.
From the moment that nine actresses from “Women Talking” crowded the stage before the movie’s premiere, it was clear that the movie offered up a wide array of performances. Polley’s absorbing, stripped-down adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel almost exclusively unfolds in the confines of a barn, where the women in question gather to discuss their options. Having discovered that men in their community have been drugging and raping them in their sleep, they’ve already managed to get a few of them arrested — while the rest...
From the moment that nine actresses from “Women Talking” crowded the stage before the movie’s premiere, it was clear that the movie offered up a wide array of performances. Polley’s absorbing, stripped-down adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel almost exclusively unfolds in the confines of a barn, where the women in question gather to discuss their options. Having discovered that men in their community have been drugging and raping them in their sleep, they’ve already managed to get a few of them arrested — while the rest...
- 9/3/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
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When Sarah Polley was in her 20s, just starting to direct short films, she got lots of advice from female directors she worked with as an actor, like Kathryn Bigelow, Audrey Wells and Isabel Coixet. “These women grabbed onto me and said, ‘You’re doing it, and here’s how fierce you’re going to have to be,'” Polley said, speaking at her Telluride Film Festival silver medallion tribute Friday night, ahead of the first public screening of her new film, Women Talking. “Kathryn Bigelow said, ‘You have to be like a dog with a bone, and everyone’s going to try to take it away from you.'”
Women Talking, a United Artists film which will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next week ahead of opening in theaters Dec. 2, is potent evidence Polley took that message to heart.
When Sarah Polley was in her 20s, just starting to direct short films, she got lots of advice from female directors she worked with as an actor, like Kathryn Bigelow, Audrey Wells and Isabel Coixet. “These women grabbed onto me and said, ‘You’re doing it, and here’s how fierce you’re going to have to be,'” Polley said, speaking at her Telluride Film Festival silver medallion tribute Friday night, ahead of the first public screening of her new film, Women Talking. “Kathryn Bigelow said, ‘You have to be like a dog with a bone, and everyone’s going to try to take it away from you.'”
Women Talking, a United Artists film which will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival next week ahead of opening in theaters Dec. 2, is potent evidence Polley took that message to heart.
- 9/3/2022
- by Rebecca Keegan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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“What follows is an act of female imagination,” declares a tile card at the beginning of Women Talking. It’s an accurate description — the feature is writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of a novel by Miriam Toews, centered on the female members of a Mennonite colony. But those opening words are also a taunt and a challenge: The women are sorting out their response to years of calculated sexual abuse, years in which the male leaders of their sect silenced their complaints by insisting that the horrors they experienced belonged to the realm of demons or the “wild female imagination.”
At the core of Polley’s smart, compassionate film is the belief that in movies and in life, words can be action — and for people who have been denied a voice, they can be revolutionary. The philosophical and sometimes faith-steeped bent of the...
“What follows is an act of female imagination,” declares a tile card at the beginning of Women Talking. It’s an accurate description — the feature is writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of a novel by Miriam Toews, centered on the female members of a Mennonite colony. But those opening words are also a taunt and a challenge: The women are sorting out their response to years of calculated sexual abuse, years in which the male leaders of their sect silenced their complaints by insisting that the horrors they experienced belonged to the realm of demons or the “wild female imagination.”
At the core of Polley’s smart, compassionate film is the belief that in movies and in life, words can be action — and for people who have been denied a voice, they can be revolutionary. The philosophical and sometimes faith-steeped bent of the...
- 9/3/2022
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With a title like “Women Talking,” audacious actor-turned-helmer Sarah Polley’s fourth feature makes clear that it will be one of those rare films capable of passing the Bechdel test. That barometer, for those who may not know, poses three seemingly easy-to-meet criteria: (1) The movie has to have at least two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something other than a man. It’s astonishing how many movies fail.
Even Polley’s film, which consists of women talking for most of its 97 minutes, is a complicated exception, since most of the conversation — an urgent meeting among the wives, mothers and daughters of an ultraconservative religious colony — concerns the men. But even then, there’s no denying that “Women Talking” is unlike any film you’ve seen before, which is exactly what you’d want from the director of 2012’s astonishingly personal, format-shattering meta-documentary “Stories We Tell.” A decade later,...
Even Polley’s film, which consists of women talking for most of its 97 minutes, is a complicated exception, since most of the conversation — an urgent meeting among the wives, mothers and daughters of an ultraconservative religious colony — concerns the men. But even then, there’s no denying that “Women Talking” is unlike any film you’ve seen before, which is exactly what you’d want from the director of 2012’s astonishingly personal, format-shattering meta-documentary “Stories We Tell.” A decade later,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
As customary, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled its lineup on the eve of its kickoff. For its 49th edition, taking place from September 2-5, the festival features new work by James Gray, Luca Guadagnino, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hlynur Pálmason, Todd Field, the Dardennes, Sarah Polley, Mia Hansen-Løve, Werner Herzog, and more, as well as a robust section of classics and filmmaker-related docs.
The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show:
• Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway
• Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano
• Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi
• Bones And All (d.
The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show:
• Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway
• Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano
• Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi
• Bones And All (d.
- 9/1/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Telluride Film Festival’s official 2022 lineup has been announced, revealing world premieres of Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder.”
In its 49th year, the festival will pay tribute to two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, whose new film “TÁR,” from director Todd Field, will debut stateside after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
In addition, the festival will also tribute Academy Award nominee Polley (adapted screenplay for 2006’s “Away from Her”) and acclaimed documentarian Marc Cousins, who has two films dropping at the fest. One is “My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock,” which is based on a fictional monologue between Cousins and the master of suspense. The other is “The March on Rome,” depicting the ascent of fascism in Europe during the 1930s.
Other Venice bows heading over to the Colorado Mountains are Luca Guadagnino’s...
In its 49th year, the festival will pay tribute to two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, whose new film “TÁR,” from director Todd Field, will debut stateside after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
In addition, the festival will also tribute Academy Award nominee Polley (adapted screenplay for 2006’s “Away from Her”) and acclaimed documentarian Marc Cousins, who has two films dropping at the fest. One is “My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock,” which is based on a fictional monologue between Cousins and the master of suspense. The other is “The March on Rome,” depicting the ascent of fascism in Europe during the 1930s.
Other Venice bows heading over to the Colorado Mountains are Luca Guadagnino’s...
- 9/1/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Writer/director Sarah Polley peels back the layers of covered-up assaults in organized religion.
Adapted from Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel of the same name, “Women Talking” stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, and Judith Ivey. The film is set to make its international premiere at 2022 TIFF, followed by appearing in the NYFF Spotlight section.
“Women Talking” centers on a group of women in an isolated religious colony who reconcile with their faith after a string of sexual assaults are committed by the colony’s men. The generations of abuse come to light along with the hypocrisy of power in the name of Christ. Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Will Bowes, and Kira Guloien also star in the film, in theaters December 2.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Polley, whose past features include “Away From Her” and “Stories We Tell,” previously opened up about her troubling experience as a...
Adapted from Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel of the same name, “Women Talking” stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, and Judith Ivey. The film is set to make its international premiere at 2022 TIFF, followed by appearing in the NYFF Spotlight section.
“Women Talking” centers on a group of women in an isolated religious colony who reconcile with their faith after a string of sexual assaults are committed by the colony’s men. The generations of abuse come to light along with the hypocrisy of power in the name of Christ. Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Will Bowes, and Kira Guloien also star in the film, in theaters December 2.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Polley, whose past features include “Away From Her” and “Stories We Tell,” previously opened up about her troubling experience as a...
- 8/17/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Writer/director Sarah Polley peels back the layers of covered-up assaults in organized religion.
Adapted from Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel of the same name, “Women Talking” stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, and Judith Ivey. The film is set to make its world premiere at 2022 TIFF, followed by appearing in the NYFF Spotlight section.
“Women Talking” centers on a group of women in an isolated religious colony who reconcile with their faith after a string of sexual assaults are committed by the colony’s men. The generations of abuse come to light along with the hypocrisy of power in the name of Christ. Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Will Bowes, and Kira Guloien also star in the film, in theaters December 2.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Polley, whose past features include “Away From Her” and “Stories We Tell,” previously opened up about her troubling experience as a...
Adapted from Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel of the same name, “Women Talking” stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand, Ben Whishaw, and Judith Ivey. The film is set to make its world premiere at 2022 TIFF, followed by appearing in the NYFF Spotlight section.
“Women Talking” centers on a group of women in an isolated religious colony who reconcile with their faith after a string of sexual assaults are committed by the colony’s men. The generations of abuse come to light along with the hypocrisy of power in the name of Christ. Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, Michelle McLeod, Will Bowes, and Kira Guloien also star in the film, in theaters December 2.
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Polley, whose past features include “Away From Her” and “Stories We Tell,” previously opened up about her troubling experience as a...
- 8/16/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Marshawn Lynch (Murderville), Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Kaia Gerber (American Horror Story), Nicholas Galitzine (Cinderella), Miles Fowler (Winning Time), Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) and Punkie Johnson (Love Life) have signed on to star in Bottoms, an upcoming high school sex comedy that Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) is directing for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions.
The film written by Seligman and Sennott follows two unpopular queer girls in their senior year who start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders. Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman and Alison Small will produce for Brownstone Productions, with production kicking off this spring.
Bottoms joins a slate of films at Orion that includes Billy Porter’s directorial debut, Anything’s Possible, set for release this summer; Women Talking—with Plan B Entertainment, and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy,...
The film written by Seligman and Sennott follows two unpopular queer girls in their senior year who start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders. Elizabeth Banks, Max Handelman and Alison Small will produce for Brownstone Productions, with production kicking off this spring.
Bottoms joins a slate of films at Orion that includes Billy Porter’s directorial debut, Anything’s Possible, set for release this summer; Women Talking—with Plan B Entertainment, and starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy,...
- 4/11/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
After a string of stellar films with Away from Her, Take This Waltz, and Stories We Tell, actor-turned-director Sarah Polley stepped away from movie-making for nearly a decade. The Canadian artist will now be making a triumphant return with a major project, an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestseller Women Talking that has assembled quite a cast.
Led by Frances McDormand, the rest of the ensemble has been unveiled with Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Ben Whishaw, and newcomers August Winter, Liv McNeil, Kate Hallett, Deadline reports. Backed by MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment, the film follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Check out the novel’s official synopsis below and pick up the book here.
One evening,...
Led by Frances McDormand, the rest of the ensemble has been unveiled with Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Ben Whishaw, and newcomers August Winter, Liv McNeil, Kate Hallett, Deadline reports. Backed by MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment, the film follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Check out the novel’s official synopsis below and pick up the book here.
One evening,...
- 6/16/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
“Women Talking,” the drama from director Sarah Polley that stars Frances McDormand, has rounded out its cast, assembling an impressive group that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Also joining the cast of “Women Talking” are Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Ben Whishaw. August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett, all in their feature film debuts, are on board as well.
The film, which is based on a novel by Miriam Toews, is set up at MGM’s Orion Pictures and is being produced by Plan B. McDormand is also producing via her Hear/Say Productions.
Women Talking Full Cast: Line 1 L-r: Frances McDormand (Alison Rosa), Rooney Mara (Thomas Whiteside), Claire Foy (Charlotte Hadden), Jessie Buckley (Charlotte Hadden); Line 2 L-r: Judith Ivey (Tess Steinkolk), Sheila McCarthy (Peg McCarthy), Michelle McLeod (Kristina Ruddick), Ben Whishaw (Tomo Brejc); Line 3 L-r:...
Also joining the cast of “Women Talking” are Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Ben Whishaw. August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett, all in their feature film debuts, are on board as well.
The film, which is based on a novel by Miriam Toews, is set up at MGM’s Orion Pictures and is being produced by Plan B. McDormand is also producing via her Hear/Say Productions.
Women Talking Full Cast: Line 1 L-r: Frances McDormand (Alison Rosa), Rooney Mara (Thomas Whiteside), Claire Foy (Charlotte Hadden), Jessie Buckley (Charlotte Hadden); Line 2 L-r: Judith Ivey (Tess Steinkolk), Sheila McCarthy (Peg McCarthy), Michelle McLeod (Kristina Ruddick), Ben Whishaw (Tomo Brejc); Line 3 L-r:...
- 6/16/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: MGM’s Orion Pictures and Plan B Entertainment have set Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Ben Whishaw to join Frances McDormand in writer/director Sarah Polley’s feature adaptation of Miriam Toews’ bestselling novel Women Talking. Rounding out the cast are August Winter and Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett in their feature film debuts. Plan B will produce Women Talking alongside McDormand via her Hear/Say Productions.
Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men. Published in 2018, the novel was named a Best Book of the Year By The New York Times Book Review, NPR.Org, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, Publishers Weekly and Time, among many others.
Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men. Published in 2018, the novel was named a Best Book of the Year By The New York Times Book Review, NPR.Org, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Slate, Publishers Weekly and Time, among many others.
- 6/16/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Plan B Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Pictures have added Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley to the Women Talking adaptation already led by Frances McDormand.
Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Ben Whishaw also boarded writer/director Sarah Polley’s feature adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name. The adaptation follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Also rounding out the cast are August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett. Plan B will produce Women Talking alongside McDormand via her Hear/Say Productions....
Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Ben Whishaw also boarded writer/director Sarah Polley’s feature adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name. The adaptation follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Also rounding out the cast are August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett. Plan B will produce Women Talking alongside McDormand via her Hear/Say Productions....
- 6/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Plan B Entertainment and MGM’s Orion Pictures have added Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley to the Women Talking adaptation already led by Frances McDormand.
Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Ben Whishaw also boarded writer/director Sarah Polley’s feature adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name. The adaptation follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Also rounding out the cast are August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett. Plan B will produce Women Talking alongside McDormand via her Hear/Say Productions....
Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Ben Whishaw also boarded writer/director Sarah Polley’s feature adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name. The adaptation follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
Also rounding out the cast are August Winter, Liv McNeil and Kate Hallett. Plan B will produce Women Talking alongside McDormand via her Hear/Say Productions....
- 6/16/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It would be easy to dismiss Rama Rau’s first non-documentary feature Honey Bee as another melodramatically grim look at the consequences of sex trafficking in North America because it does utilize a lot of narrative convenience as far as driving the plot towards its endgame. Doing so, however, would discount the reason why Bonnie Fairweather and Kathleen Hepburn’s script works this way and why the resulting message is more important than the journey to get there. The whole point of portraying young Natalie’s (Julia Sarah Stone) plight is to provide an example for how the cycle of abuse can be broken. It’s not about piling on the tragedy or sweeping her trauma under the rug for some unrealistic rebirth in the aftermath. It’s about growing, healing, and hope.
The decision to therefore bookend the film with scenes at truck stops is crucial. We must witness...
The decision to therefore bookend the film with scenes at truck stops is crucial. We must witness...
- 11/9/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
"Time is money, let's go." Syndicado has debuted the official US trailer for a Canadian film titled Honey Bee, the first feature from acclaimed doc filmmaker Rama Rau. This premiered at the Whistler Film Festival in 2018, and is getting a VOD release this month in the US. Honey Bee is an unpredictable tale of survival that follows the journey of quick-witted "Honey Bee", an underage truck stop sex worker ensnared by her ruthless Romeo-pimp boyfriend. Unwittingly, she is taken into foster care with her new family, Louise and Christian, in a remote rural area in Northern Canada where she discovers there might be more to life than the hand she's been dealt. Rau needed to tell this story as a fictionalized drama because to tell the real stories would put the lives of these girls at risk. Starring Julia Sarah Stone, Martha Plimpton, Peter Outerbridge, Steven Love, and Michelle McLeod.
- 11/4/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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- 3/2/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The Canadian indie “Don’t Talk to Irene” shows it’s possible to find a movie’s first 20 minutes immensely dislikable and its last 20 minutes assuredly winning; that it’s possible to tap your feet and roll your eyes at the same time as you recognize how you’re being played. Somewhere in between introducing, in a dumpster, the titular misfit teenage girl (newcomer Michelle McLeod), and sending her into the closing credits with a few Hughes-ian moments of justifiable pride, writer-director Pat Mills (“Guidance”) manages to overcome a weakness for twee snark and easy humiliation comedy to find a suitably amusing, even...
- 2/28/2018
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
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