There’s already a considerable quantity of buzz surrounding the upcoming movie Women Talking by Oscar-nominated writer-director Sarah Polley. The characteristic made its method by the competition circuit earlier this 12 months, premiering at Telluride Film Festival in September, and it has already obtained a number of awards, nominations, and acclaim from critics. After a profitable competition run, Women Talking will lastly make its theatrical launch proper earlier than the vacations on December twenty third. Ahead of its premiere, a second trailer has formally been launched, portray a fair darker image of the ladies’s lives throughout the male-dominated spiritual neighborhood.
The opening line, “Do Nothing. Stay and Fight. Leave,” units the stage for the chilling two-minute and thirty seconds trailer. New clips are proven, depicting the sophisticated bodily and emotional aftermath of the sexual assault that the Mennonite girls have needed to endure. As the trailer progresses, viewers actually start to see the ladies battle as they ponder their choices for survival, whereas additionally making an attempt to reconcile with their religion. Though the plot follows girls in a deeply patriarchal spiritual sect from 2010, the leaden weight of ladies addressing trauma, therapeutic, and forgiveness whereas navigating patriarchal energy techniques nonetheless rings true right now.
Sarah Polley’s Women Talking touches on a extremely delicate, trigger-worthy matter, sexual assault. Depictions of the sensitive topic in media nonetheless are inclined to lean extra on the graphic facet, even now in a post-Me Too period. However, Polley decides to method the violent acts in an innocuous method. Instead of giving screentime to the physicality of the assaults, the film shifts the main target to the lingering questions, discussions, and revelations the ladies should face as they battle to search out the correct course ahead.
“Though the backstory behind the events in Women Talking is violent, the film is not,” Polley stated in a press release to Rolling Stone. “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.”