Women Talking

As the film’s ending powerfully indicates, Women Talking must not be the final word. Our discourse must only carry on.

The exercise of female self-determination in Women Talking ticks profoundly in a post-Dobbs world in which a woman’s ability to choose her destiny is significantly circumscribed.

A staggering ensemble cast led by Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley & Claire Foy powers Sarah Polley's surprisingly hopeful story of a religious colony in crisis.

A remarkable ensemble of performers unite for this combustible, timely chamber-piece that hails the return of Polley as an ambitious and empirical filmmaker.

...there is a sustained moral seriousness in Polley’s work, a willingness to confront pain.

An atmosphere of empathy, reason and wit pervades Polley’s film, underwritten by an emancipatory urgency (“that day we learned to vote”) that drives the narrative even in its darkest moments.

...is about as direct as cinema gets in portraying the complexities and nuances of the feminist struggle...

...an impassioned new drama from actor turned director Sarah Polley...