Women talking / Orion Pictures presents; a Plan B Entertainment, hear/say production; directed by Sarah Polley; screenplay by Sarah Polley; produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand.
Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. Eight women, all illiterate, without any knowledge of the world outside their colony and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in, meet secretly in a hayloft with the intention of making a decision about how to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. They have two days to make a plan, while the men of the colony are away in the city attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists (not ghosts as it turns out but local men) and bring them home. How should we live? How should we love? How should we treat one another? How should we organize our societies? These are questions the women in Women Talking ask one another.
Record details
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, [2023]
- Distributor: Universal City, CA : Studio Distribution Services, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
General Note: | Based upon the book by Miriam Toews. Anamorphic widescreen (2.76:1). |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Director and screenwriter, Sarah Polley; producers, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Frances McDormand; cinematographer, Luc Montpellier; film editors, Christopher Donaldson, Roslyn Kalloo ; music, Hildur Guðnadóttir. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, August Winter, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: PG-13; for mature thematic content including sexual assault, bloody images, and some strong language. |
System Details Note: | DVD, region 1 NTSC, widescreen (2.76:1); Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS 2.0; color/dual layer. |
Language Note: | English or French dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; English described video. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Mennonite women > Drama. Rape victims > Drama. Demonology > Drama. Conspiracies > Drama. Religious communities > Drama. |
Genre: | Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
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