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Women Talking (2022)

Drama | 104 minutes
2,97 117 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 104 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Sarah Polley

Stars: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley

IMDb score: 6,9 (45.730)

Releasedate: 23 December 2022

Women Talking plot

"Do nothing. Stay and fight. Leave."

In Bolivia, a group of women lives in a religious community. The colony is startled when the male sex assaults the females several times. The women find it difficult to reconcile their faith with the attacks.

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hvdriel

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Eight women discuss whether they will stay in the colony and forgive their rapists, whether they will stay and fight the patriarchal rule, and whether they will leave. A man who has returned from elsewhere keeps the minutes. A Kammerspiel with a special and topical theme about women who finally get a voice, and take that voice.

The film was not easy, this Oscar-nominated and four-star acclaimed film that I experienced as cringing, like a promising play with too literary texts that must have driven the actresses and one actor to despair.

The women form a diverse ensemble in word and song, but no glow wants to radiate from them, nor do their conflicting emotions become palpable at any time. You can barely hear them speak.

August, the man who takes minutes, plays submissiveness itself with a chiseled smile and if he falls out of this role, he exhausts himself in slavish excuses. I got the shivers.

Typical theatrical adaptation, I thought while watching, but the credits indicate book adaptation.

Perfect for the theatre.

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De filosoof

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The film lives up to its title because it consists almost entirely of talk by a number of women in a strict religious village who have been told by the men that they must forgive their rapists or else leave so that the women meet to decide whether to stay to fight the men or leave (forgiving is not an option). Besides the expected criticism of how the faith has taken shape in this man's world - do they really not go to heaven if they don't forgive their rapists or is that a rule of the men to oppress the women? – the film seems to mainly want to raise philosophical questions, but they never go beyond clichés, such as that uncertainty is the only certainty, well-known dilemmas, such as whether you can use violence to stop violence, and even more cliché considerations, such as that the rapists are in a sense also victims of the rape culture in which they were brought up. However, the conversation never goes deep and it does not want to become interesting, because there is not much action either. The film also piggybacks on the current social debate: it even features a transgender person and a man who – contrary to the established role pattern – has 'understood' and is a total wimp who only cries and submits to women. The title of the film is of course also a metaphor: women have always had to remain silent, but are now speaking out, which is the beginning of the change. But unfortunately what they have to say is not interesting…

In short, the film consists of more than 100 minutes of almost uninteresting bullshit: I think it is a failed and annoying film and I would rather have spent the 100 minutes better.

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mrklm

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The women within a religious, secluded community take advantage of the men's absence to organize a meeting to discuss what they can do to end the horrible way men treat them. After an impromptu referendum, three generations of women from three families are elected to decide together what the women will do: stay and fight or leave the colony. Since the women are forbidden to learn to read and write, teacher August [Ben Whishaw] is present to take minutes for posterity. The screenplay by Polley and Miriam Toews convincingly exposes the dilemmas that oppressed women still face. Mara, Foy and Buckley are the big names in the cast (McDormand has a relatively small part), but the best work comes from Judith Ivey and Sheila McCarthy (as the two oldest women), from Kate Hallett (as the young Autje) and from Whishaw.

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