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Dress sensitivity: creating the Mennonite costumes for Women Talking

Quita Alfred tells how she designed long, dark dresses that chime incongruously with fashion

The Guardian - UK

Women Talking draws from a true story of mass sexual assault to re-imagine how a society can deal with trauma

In Oscars contender Women Talking, inspired by a devastating true story of mass sexual assault, a group of women in an isolated community grapple with whether to forgive, stay and fight, or leave.

ABC News

Women Talking review – a stellar ensemble energises Sarah Polley’s timeless parable

The Canadian director’s finely balanced drama about the abuse, secrets and shame of an isolated religious community boasts wonderfully nuanced performances, yet the real action lies in its knotty central argument

The Guardian - UK

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Women Talking review: This meditation on abuse and survival deserves the Best Picture Oscar

Sarah Polley’s superlative film, based on Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel, features an all-star cast on staggering form

The Independent UK

Women Talking – a radical film that reimagines how cinema can be made

Words matter. They give expression to our experiences, allow us to tell our stories and make sense of our place within the world. With language comes the ability to speak: to speak for, and to speak out. To name injustices and imagine alternative futures. The radical feminist Audre Lorde tells…

The Conversation

Ben Whishaw: We’re all more fluid than is really discussed

The role of the only male in Women Talking, a film about the awful things men do, required a rare talent. Enter Ben Whishaw, who tellsRichard Godwin about his nuanced take on modern masculinity, acting with the Queen and why the NHS is being ‘deliberately wrecked’

Evening Standard

Women Talking review – ensemble drama forefronts female experience of violence

This important film tells the story of a community battered by rape and patriarchal ideas, as a mainly female cast debate the repercussions of brutality

The Guardian - UK

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How we made Oscar-winning Women Talking with Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley: ‘I love an unpalatable woman’

The director and stars discuss 2023’s most incendiary film, which just won an Oscar for Best Adapted screenplay

Evening Standard

Many ways "Women Talking" asks for mercy

Sarah Polley's Oscar-nominated take on the novel makes a powerful change that adds dimension to the Mennonite story

Salon

Marie Kondo not a fraud, despite outrage

People angry at the decluttering expert for her latest admission never understood her in the first place

Salon

The Guide #71: From Top Gun to Tár, the best picture Oscar nominees ranked

In this week’s newsletter: It’s one of the toughest races to call in years, but this week we rank the ten outstanding candidates to win the biggest prize of all

The Guardian - UK

Oscars 2023 tip sheet: Who should win, who will win

Best picture

Tribune News Service

Women at the Oscars take a big step back

Check out the full list of Oscar nominations, which include no women nominated for directing

Salon

Oscar nominations 2023 talking points: The 7 biggest snubs and surprises

Paul Mescal in! Danielle Deadwyler out! The biggest talking points from this year’s nods

The Independent UK

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2023 Oscar nominations overlook women directors

LOS ANGELES — The streak of women winning the director Oscar is over at two.

The Guardian - UK

Envelopes, please! Our film critics reveal their personal Oscars shortlists

Ahead of the official Academy nominations on Tuesday, Observer critics and film writers pick their standout movies, performances, directors and more

Los Angeles Times

Oscars nominations 2023: Final predictions for all 23 categories

LOS ANGELES — Oscar nominations arrive bright and early Tuesday morning and, judging from the conversations I've had with film academy members, there are going to be a lot of surprises when the slate is revealed. There's no best picture front-runner and loyalties are splintered in a dozen different directions.…

The Independent UK

Critics Choice Awards 2023 winners: See the full list

Some of the night’s biggest winners were Angela Bassett, Jennifer Coolidge, Brendan Fraser, and Cate Blanchett

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Golden Globes and SAGs set stage for winners at the biggest Hollywood party … the Oscars

For different reasons, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guide (SAG) Awards are both strong predictors for the upcoming 95th Academy Awards.

Los Angeles Times

For Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy, it is so much more than talking

Claire Foy is talking about TikTok or, more precisely, how she doesn't understand TikTok and needed the younger cast members on the set of her new film "Women Talking" to help her navigate the popular app, when co-star Jessie Buckley stands up and starts doing what she calls that "flossy…

Los Angeles Times

Oscars voting is about to begin. Who’s on track for a nomination?

LOS ANGELES — We're a week away from the beginning of Oscar nominations voting. Motion picture academy members presumably spent the holidays unwrapping tamales, spiking the eggnog and catching up on the movies they've missed. (Or, from what I'm hearing, watching the ones they love once again instead of doing…

Tribune News Service

'Women Talking' review: A powerful, moving tribute to quiet strength

Miriam Toews' 2018 novel "Women Talking" was inspired by a horrific real-life story: In a remote Mennonite colony in Bolivia, many girls and women were repeatedly and violently raped by men in the community, who would use an animal anesthetic to render the victims unconscious as they slept in their…

Tribune News Service

Top 10 movies of 2022

1. "Women Talking." I worry about the movies tackling beloved books, especially if they're by the great Canadian novelist Miriam Toews. But writer/director Sarah Polley was the ideal person to craft this searing, disarmingly funny tale of abused Mennonite women who think they must choose between God and their lives.

Los Angeles Times

Sexism on set made Sarah Polley 'squirm.' So she made a film by a new set of rules

NEW YORK — Sarah Polley wasn't really looking for a project to direct when she was approached about adapting Miriam Toews' novel "Women Talking" into a film. Since the release in 2012 of "Stories We Tell," a deeply personal documentary about Polley's late mother, the Canadian filmmaker has spent most…

Los Angeles Times

Review: Ensemble acting doesn’t get much better than in Sarah Polley’s brilliant ‘Women Talking’

For much of “Women Talking,” Sarah Polley’s suspenseful and galvanizing fourth feature, we are in the hayloft of a barn overlooking a remote stretch of farmland, with a lonely dirt road winding toward the horizon. The sunlight spilling in through the window seems to beckon to the eight women who…

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