Women Talking

It makes salient points about the power of debate and women's voices; Polley's intelligence and sensitivity are vital traits even as the visual components of the movie remain frustratingly inferior.

Even though it’s a Spartan approach to filmmaking, Women Talking never fails to slap you awake.

Women Talking is a tough-minded yet sensitive film that could pose a bit of a challenge for some audiences.

If you can go along with these broad brushstrokes and consequent holes in the plot, you’ll find high drama in Foy and Buckley’s ferociously fine performances, together with moments of wistful poetry...

It breaks free of the bleak narratives that have boxed in cinema’s rape victims over and over again. At the very least, it’s something we haven’t seen before.

A tale that is at once timely and timeless.

While the novel was inspired by real events that occurred in a Bolivian colony, the film takes place in a rural and isolated community where the women, tired of patriarchal oppression, try to reconcile their desire for freedom with their religious beliefs

Women Talking is powerful and strikes emotional chords exactly where and when it needs to.

Powerful, sensitive, and open-minded, it is a phenomenal picture that is more than deserving of its award buzz.

Polley's film holds space, and, most of all, urges all in the audience to lean in and face, without filter or metaphor, the truth.