The film is inspired by a novel that is loosely based on a chilling tale. So far this awards season, Women Talking as been recognized with nominations at the Critics’ Choice Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards and Golden Globes. Sarah Polley won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay on Sunday 12th March for her harrowing drama, Women Talking. Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and McDormand produced the pic, with Brad Pitt, Lyn Lucibello Brancatella and Emily Jade Foley serving as exec producers. Starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand, Women Talking world premiered at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival and opened in select theaters via United Artists Releasing on December 23 before going wide January 20. The genesis of the story is discussed more in this MGM featurette: Polley adds that when she began contemplating her adaptation, she imagined it as being “in the realm of a fable.” Explains Polley, “I wanted to feel in every frame the endless potential and possibility contained in a conversation about how to remake a broken world.” Contrary to what one might expect, given the horrors at the centers of its story, when Polley first read Toews’ book, it left the filmmaker feeling “bewilderingly hopeful” and impacting her profoundly with the questions it raised about “forgiveness, faith, systems of power, trauma, healing, culpability, community, and self-determination.”
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