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Film · 2023

Women Talking

Directed by Sarah Polley · starring Rooney Mara, Judith Ivey and Claire Foy

  • 1 h 44 min
  • Drama
  • USA
  • Released in the UK 9 February 2023
  • 7.4 AverageMovieNCo
  • 5.9 Users3 votes
  • 8.8 Critics3 reviews

Synopsis

On February 17, Sarah Polley's latest film 'Women talking' will arrive at the cinemas . The Canadian who rose to fame as an actress in films such as 'Mr. Nobody', 'The Secret Life of Words' or 'Dawn of the Dead' adds three films under her direction with this one.

'Woman talking' tells the story of a group of women who belong to a strange and isolated religious community in 2010. These women will fight to recover the initial spirit of this religion, which has been desecrated, like their faith, by sexual abuse that these women suffered at the hands of the mens from the congregation.

The film is based on the novel by the writer, also Canadian, Miriam Toews. Toews and Polley have worked together on the adaptation of the book. The book, which bears the same name as the film, was published in 2018, five years later the story came to the big screen.

To impersonate this group of religious, Polley will have the actresses: Rooney Mara ('Millennium: The Men Who Didn't Love Women'), Claire Foy ('Fist Man - The First Man'), Judith Lee Ivey ('The Woman in Red'), Sheila McCarthy ('Possessed'), Jessie Buckley ('The Dark Daughter') and the winner of three Oscars Frances McDormand ('Nomaland').

The film is produced by Brad Pitt, Emily Jade Foley and Lucibello Brancatella.

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The essentials

Runtime
104 min1 hour and 44 minutes
Box office
$5.4min US
How long is Women Talking?
1 hour and 44 minutes (104 minutes).
When was Women Talking released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 9 February 2023.
Who directed Women Talking?
Sarah Polley.
Who is in Women Talking?
It stars Rooney Mara, Judith Ivey, Claire Foy and Sheila McCarthy.
Where can I watch Women Talking?
In the UK it is available with the Prime Video channel on MGM+ and to rent on Apple TV.
How much did Women Talking make?
It took $5.4 million in US.
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Director
Sarah Polley
Writers
Sarah Polley

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Reviews

All 3 reviews
5.9 3 votes

What the critics say average 8.8 from 3 outlets

  • 10 Los Angeles TimesJustin Chang The awakening of that mind and others in this community of a collective consciousness powerful enough to reshape the world or at least a small patch of it. Read
  • 8.3 Entertainment WeeklyLeah Greenblatt It's a testament to the fierce talent of those actresses that the film works as well as it does. Read
  • 8.0 VarietyPeter Debruge Polley is back with another bold thought experiment, inspired by a horrific conspiracy of sexual abuse discovered within a Mennonite community about a decade ago. Read

Box office

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  • US $5.4m
  • UK £776,884

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Trivia

  • 31 years later

    It is the first Orion Pictures film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars since 'The Silence of the Lambs' in 1991.

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