She partnered with Frances McDormand, who also plays a small role in the movie, and Dede Gardner, the president of Plan B Entertainment the production company co-founded by Brad Pitt has an overall deal with MGM. The majority of the film plays out like a stage drama with the women debating their fate while tackling the thorny emotions of rage, anguish, forgiveness and hope.ĭespite these perceived hurdles, Polley said she had “an enormous amount of faith and freedom” to make it. All of them are illiterate, so they bring one man into their group (Ben Whishaw) to leave a record of their decision. The women have three choices: Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. The story centers on a group of women gathered in a hayloft to discuss their response to the horrifying revelation that they have been repeatedly drugged and raped by some of the men in their colony. Despite the praise for the novel, which is loosely based on real-life events in an ultraconservative Mennonite colony in Bolivia, the subject matter was a tough sell. The filmmaker Sarah Polley wrote the script, based on the critically acclaimed 2019 novel by Miriam Toews, without the backing of a studio. Nothing about the making of “Women Talking” should have been easy.
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