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Jan 5, 2023 · This review originally ran Sept. 3, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Filmmaker Sarah Polley has always been a tireless miner of the female headspace, excavating gold out of thoroughly earned feminine wisdom. Relentlessly challenging the rules of a man’s world and putting their own stamp on ...
Sep 14, 2022 · September 14, 2022 12:45 PM EDT. T wo girls idly join their braids together, literally bonding themselves to one another. It’s an image that the filmmaker Sarah Polley never comments on in her ...
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Mar 14, 2024 · EAST LANSING, Mich.—The first weekend in March brought with it the chance for some artists to showcase their films during the Michigan Film Festival, hosted in Okemos at Studio C next to the Meridian Mall. The event, which began April 29, featured 40 films throughout the weekend, some of which were directed by Michigan State […]
An adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Miriam Toews, this quiet drama offers a rumination on the power of grief, rage, grace, and triumph. Our screening of Women Talking will be preceded by a short presentation with Virginia Film Office director Andy Edmunds honoring the three winners of the 2022 Virginia Screenwriting Competition.
Rafaela Bassili 21 Apr 2023. The women of an isolated religious colony reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men. They gather in a barn to discuss how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. They present three choices: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave.
Sep 3, 2022 · Even Polley’s film, which consists of women talking for most of its 97 minutes, is a complicated exception, since most of the conversation — an urgent meeting among the wives, mothers and ...
