Women Talking

Name: Women Talking
Genre: Drama
Released: December 23, 2022
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Claire Foy, Emily Mitchell, Frances McDormand, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey

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United Artists Releasing | Release Date: December 23, 2022 | PG-13

Starring: Claire Foy, Emily Mitchell, Frances McDormand, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, Michelle McLeod, Rooney Mara, Sheila McCarthy

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Received two Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. See all awards and nominations.

Summary: In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews.

Director: Sarah Polley

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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The Independent Jessie Thompson

Feb 13, 2023

Even if Sarah Polley’s superlative work doesn’t get the plaudits or the audience it deserves, it should stand to have a far greater legacy. This is the kind of cinema that endures – not just as a great work of art (although it is that), but as something that moves us all forward. Read full review

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A.O. Scott

Dec 23, 2022

The root of Protestantism, after all, is protest — against arbitrary and unaccountable authority in the name of a higher truth. Women Talking reawakens that idea and applies it, with precision and passion, to our own time and circumstances. The women don’t want pity or revenge. They want a better world. Why not listen? Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Sep 3, 2022

Hard as it might be to imagine, Women Talking is an upbeat and propulsive film cut with a sharp wit and a ready sense of humor, even if its characters are often laughing as hard as they wish they could cry. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Sep 3, 2022

The whole scenario is designed to get your blood boiling, while the resulting conversation can’t help but instill hope, as Polley gives these women a rare opportunity to reinvent their world. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Jan 4, 2023

Despite the specificity of the setting and the performances, there is a universality to the story. Read full review

Richard Brody

Jan 6, 2023

The exceptional, often overwhelming power of the script that Polley wrote, based on Miriam Toews’s novel, is, if not undercut, not amplified by the filming. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Jan 2, 2023

Women Talking has a remarkable cast — Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, among others — and it’s grounded in dramatic real-life events. But it’s mannered in its conception and wooden in its execution, and has little to do with living, breathing people. Read full review

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dunnyone

Dec 5, 2022

There were so many women talking in this film. Tall women, short women, women big and small. Every so often, a man talks but then it quickly swaps back to women talking. 10/10 would watch women speaking to each other again.

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lessacebola

Mar 11, 2023

Um filme que é bastante tenso emocionalmente, os sentimentos das personagens são muito bem transmitidos.

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HerickDiener

Feb 28, 2023

"Women Talking" tem a maior quantidade de atrizes talentosas por metro quadrado no cinema em anos, com um aceno especial para o trio Claire Foy, Rooney Mara e Jessie Buckley.

O cenário quase claustrofóbico não me incomodou, como a maioria. E a fotografia evidenciando os olhos marejados em"Women Talking" tem a maior quantidade de atrizes talentosas por metro quadrado no cinema em anos, com um aceno especial para o trio Claire Foy, Rooney Mara e Jessie Buckley.

O cenário quase claustrofóbico não me incomodou, como a maioria. E a fotografia evidenciando os olhos marejados em grandes cenas foi um destaque. Eu tiraria uns dez minutos da cena final, que ficou mais longa do que deveria. Sarah Polley quis nitidamente fechar quase todas as pontas soltas que o enredo poderia deixar, mas algumas ninguém ia sentir tanta falta.… Expand

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alanpotter17

Mar 5, 2023

As cenas iniciais do longa já dão conta de retratar tudo aquilo que será exposto em quase duas horas, e é exatamente aquilo que o título descreve: um divã entre mulheres dado os casos de estupro ocorridos em algum lugar, em algum contexto.
Como as palavras das mulheres costumam serAs cenas iniciais do longa já dão conta de retratar tudo aquilo que será exposto em quase duas horas, e é exatamente aquilo que o título descreve: um divã entre mulheres dado os casos de estupro ocorridos em algum lugar, em algum contexto.
Como as palavras das mulheres costumam ser invisibilizadas, o filme já deixa claro não só a perspectiva feminina, mas também o fato de que tudo não possa ser encenação ou exagero.
Confesso que, em meu olhar de homem cis, achei sim bem exagerada, na verdade um grande DR entre mulheres. Basicamente, o roteiro vai construindo argumentos para discutir se elas fogem dali ou ficam para confrontar os homens. É como se de certa forma, esse fosse o dilema pessoal de cada ou de toda a mulher, como se cada personagem ali talvez pudesse ser uma das diversas vozes que há em uma única mulher.
Essa sensação pode ser confirmada devido a maioria das cenas terem sido gravadas num único espaço, o que foi até gostoso de acompanhar na maioria dos momentos. Há alguns monólogos interessantíssimos, mesclando questões femininas com cristãs. Não sei se soou anacrônico, tendo em vista que o filme parece acontecer em algum momento do passado, mas tornou o filme um soco no estômago em diversas vezes. Ainda assim achei cansativa a masturbação psicológica, com um clímax que é bem inferior ao que vinha sendo apresentado.
Fiquei com a sensação de que uma peça de teatro seria a melhor forma de adaptação, já que basicamente o filme se sustenta nas palavras e na forma de argumentação que cada corpo feminino possui. É tocante algumas vezes. Há a presença de um gentil professor no meio daquelas mulheres, além de uma mulher mais masculinizada, o que só enriquece o universo.
Os demais homens quase não aparecem, mas são citados a todo instante. Não sei até que ponto o filme reforça papéis de gênero bidirecionais, mas o fato é que o filme toca em feridas muito importantes, como o papel da mãe em casos de violação do corpo de suas filhas, a questão da sororidade, da habilidade de organização, etc. Aliás, o lado bom do filme é perceber que não são casos isolados, e sim parte de uma estrutura social misógina.
Um bom filme, que põe a mulher, seus desejos e problemas para discutirem entre si, e pra mim funcionou para mostrar alguns conflitos que eu como homem jamais passaria.… Expand

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royalguy07

Feb 18, 2023

Fully fleshed characters expertly acted and portrayed in an dire and impossible situation.

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Brent_Marchant

Dec 30, 2022

I’ll admit up front that this is likely going to be an unpopular review and a decidedly minority opinion, but I have to be honest about my feelings. Writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel of the same name may come from a place of noble intent, and it may featureI’ll admit up front that this is likely going to be an unpopular review and a decidedly minority opinion, but I have to be honest about my feelings. Writer-director Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel of the same name may come from a place of noble intent, and it may feature one of the year’s finest acting ensembles, but its overall treatment is a major misfire. This fact-based story about a group of women from a conservative religious colony who meet to discuss how to respond to a series of sexual assaults in their community unfolds in a circular, wooden, stagey fashion that plays more like a university discussion group than a work of dramatic cinema. The ideas raised in these dialogues – ranging from activism to passivity to intergender relations to forgiveness to faith and salvation – are certainly lofty topics for consideration and deliberation, especially in terms of how they might be addressed in the forging of a new and better world. But their handling here is so forced and inauthentic that the entire exercise lacks believability and does little to foster a sense of concerted viewer engagement, a project that might have been more accurately titled "Women Endlessly Talking Things to Death." And, as the narrative drones on and on, it becomes tediously dull, with one of the characters herself astutely observing that “This is very, very boring” (well said, if a bit ironic). What’s more, a number of incidents and themes seemingly arise out of nowhere and aren’t always fully resolved, making one wonder why they were included in the first place. Even more disappointing is the fact that the film features so many fine portrayals by performers who are given such stilted material to work with, including Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand (whose appearance is more of an afterthought than anything else). Director Polley has certainly made a name for herself with such excellent past works as “Away From Her” (2006), but her reach has certainly exceeded her grasp with this undertaking, one that has much to say but ultimately says so little.… Expand

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praneelraja

Dec 24, 2022

It’s not dumb. Women Talking even has some vigorous dialogue passages in the opening section, stemming from the aftermath of rape from the faceless men in the community. Hey, I went in cold and so in the opening minutes thought this was a look at the late 1800’s. Or early 1900’s. Then aIt’s not dumb. Women Talking even has some vigorous dialogue passages in the opening section, stemming from the aftermath of rape from the faceless men in the community. Hey, I went in cold and so in the opening minutes thought this was a look at the late 1800’s. Or early 1900’s. Then a bombshell came when the one male figure makes a reference to Italy fascism during World War II. Then we see another device in the form of a modern pick-up truck. I started to think for a second, is this some cerebral science fiction? Then I thought, this isn’t the Amish because they’re not dressed like Amish. Then I remember seeing “Silent Light” (2007) about the secular Mennonites in modern times. Ultimately, what this is, is an allegory about female migration.… Expand

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