During the break, it is revealed that August is from an excommunicated family, but was recently granted permission to return and teach the boys of the colony. To defuse the conflict, Ona suggests that August create one document stating the pros and cons of leaving, and another document with those for staying. Mariche, Greta's daughter and Autje's mother, disagrees, believing that forgiveness is the only viable option. Ona, who is pregnant after being raped, also suggests that they stay and, after winning the fight, create a new set of rules for the colony that would give the women equality. Salome, just back from a trip to gather antibiotics to treat her assaulted four-year-old daughter, remains adamant about staying and fighting, an opinion shared by Mejal. August, the colony's schoolteacher and one of the only remaining men, joins the women to record the meeting, as none of the women were taught to read or write. Eleven of the colony's women band together at a hayloft to come to a final decision, though Scarface Janz, a woman in the "do nothing" camp, leaves the meeting after becoming disillusioned with the discussion, taking her hesitant daughter Anna and resistant granddaughter Helena with her. The vote is tied between staying and fighting, and leaving. They hold a plebiscite to decide whether to stay and do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. Most of the men of the colony travel to oversee the bail, leaving the women by themselves for two days to determine how they will proceed. The attackers are arrested and imprisoned in a nearby city. In 2010, the women and girls of an isolated Mennonite colony discover that the men have been using livestock tranquilizer to subdue and rape them. Plot Ī young woman sleeping alone in bed wakes to find bruises and wounds on her hips and upper inner thighs-injuries sustained from rape. It was named one of the top ten films of 2022 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards, 75th Writers Guild of America Awards, and the 95th Academy Awards, where it was also nominated for Best Picture. The film received positive reviews from critics, who lauded Polley's screenplay and direction, the performances of the cast (particularly of Foy, Buckley, and Whishaw) and score. Women Talking premiered at the 49th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2022, and was released in the United States via select theaters on December 23, 2022, before a wide release on January 27, 2023, by United Artists Releasing. It features an ensemble cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand, who also served as a producer on the film. Based on the Canadian 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews, itself inspired by the gas-facilitated rapes that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia, the film follows a group of American Mennonite women who discuss their future, following their discovery of the men's history of raping the colony's women. Women Talking is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley.
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