{"id":16800,"date":"2022-09-01T23:20:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=16800"},"modified":"2022-09-01T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:20:29","slug":"women-talking-to-premiere-at-telluride-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/09\/01\/women-talking-to-premiere-at-telluride-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"“Women Talking” To Premiere At Telluride Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
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– Statement from SARAH POLLEY, writer and director –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Women Talking<\/a><\/em>, a group of women, many of whom disagree on essential things, have a conversation to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the backstory behind the events in Women Talking<\/em> is violent, the film is not. We never see the violence that the women have experienced. We see only short glimpses of the aftermath. Instead, we watch a community of women come together as they must decide, in a very short space of time, what their collective response will be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I read Miriam Toews\u2019 book, it sunk deep into me, raising questions and thoughts about the world I live in that I had never articulated. Questions about forgiveness, faith, systems of power, trauma, healing, culpability, community, and self-determination. It also left me bewilderingly hopeful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I imagined this film in the realm of a fable. While the story in the film is specific to a small religious community, I felt that it needed a large canvas, an epic scope through which to reflect the enormity and universality of the questions raised in the film. To this end, it felt imperative that the visual language of the film breathe and expand. I wanted to feel in every frame the endless potential and possibility contained in a conversation about how to remake a broken world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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WT_08271_R\n\nDirector Sarah Polley on the set of her film\n\nWOMEN TALKING\n\nAn Orion Pictures Release\n\nPhoto credit: Michael Gibson\n\n\u00a9 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Based on the novel by Miriam Toews.<\/p>\n\n\n

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WT_07885-07899_RCC4\n(l-r.) Michelle McLeod stars as Mejal, Sheila McCarthy as Greta,\nLiv McNeil as Neitje, Jessie Buckley as Mariche, Claire Foy as Salome, Kate Hallett as Autje, Rooney Mara as Ona and Judith Ivey as Agata in director Sarah Polley\u2019s film,\nWOMEN TALKING\nAn Orion Pictures Release\nPhoto credit: Michael Gibson\n\u00a9 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Directed by:<\/strong> Sarah Polley
Screenplay by: <\/strong>Sarah Polley
Based upon the Book by:<\/strong> Miriam Toews
Produced by: <\/strong>Dede Gardner, p.g.a, Jeremy Kleiner, p.g.a., Frances McDormand, p.g.a.
Executive Producers: <\/strong>Brad Pitt, Lyn Lucibello Brancatella, Emily Jade Foley
Cast:<\/strong> Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand
Genre:<\/strong> Drama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Statement from SARAH POLLEY, writer and director – In Women Talking, a group of women, many of whom disagree on essential things, have a conversation to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Though the backstory behind the events in Women Talking is… Continue reading “Women Talking” To Premiere At Telluride Film Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}