Search results
Jan 27, 2023 · The plot begins with the rapists having been carted off to jail (for their own safety) and the women of an “ isolated religious community ,” wrestling with the decision to stay and fight, or ...
- The Real Story
- The Novel
- The Film Adaptation
The circumstances of the attacks that inspired Women Talking are nightmarish. For years, men in the Manitoba Colony used an anesthetic initially made for cattle to render girls and women unconscious and rape them. In 2009,one woman caught two of the attackerswhen she woke up during an assault. Initially, the men accused were punished by their own p...
Novelist Miriam Toews possesses a unique insight into the survivors’ lives. Toews was raised Mennonite in Manitoba, Canada, and has written multiple books about her background. Women Talking, her 7th novel, uses the horrific rapes as the basis for an explanation of how women speak when they are living in a place that denies them that right. It’s an...
Polley is a director who is uniquely situated to the challenge of adapting this talky and often dense material. Having begun her career as a child actor on Canadian television and, later, in films, she pivoted into directing as a young adult, with movies that explored feminine desire. Her last feature was the 2012 documentary Stories We Tell, an ex...
- Esther Zuckerman
Aug 18, 2018 · In new novel Women Talking, the ex-Mennonite tells their story ... crime in a remote religious community. Read more “August is inspired by my own father, especially his gentleness. My dad was a ...
- Katrina Onstad
Feb 14, 2023 · Women Talking understands that the patriarchy reproduces itself intergenerationally: Men and boys learn from their elders—in the colony’s case, religious leaders—while women and girls ...
Dec 23, 2022 · LOS ANGELES -- The new movie "Women Talking" is inspired by true events about incidents that happened at an isolated religious community. The film deals with faith, forgiveness, reckoning and rage.
Feb 24, 2023 · Women and L.G.B.T. Catholics find their identities, even their physical selves, often defined by men who say their interpretations come from the word of God. “Women Talking” charts a different ...
Apr 6, 2019 · The Canadian writer Miriam Toews opens her astonishing eighth novel, Women Talking, with a matter-of-fact Author's Note.Between 2005 and 2009, she explains, eight men in a remote Mennonite colony ...
