Woman talking was based on a novel written by Marian Taves, which was inspired by real events that occurred in a Mennonite colony in rural Bolivia. The attackers used a cow anesthetic to spray it into homes to sedate the entire household before climbing through the windows. Women in this tight knit, fundamentalist, pacifist community gather in a bond and they discuss with each other how best to respond to abuse. They narrow their choices to do nothing, stay in fight or leave.
We saw the film WOMEN TALKING and we couldn’t rest until we had the chance to speak with the genius who wrote, directed, and is nominated for an Oscar for it: Sarah Polley.
This conversation is about hope, survival, imagination, and revolution. It’s about burning it all down and building from the ashes.
Please listen to this conversation and then please watch the film. You will be powerfully changed.
CW // sexual assault
About Sarah:
SARAH POLLEY is an Oscar-nominated director and award-winning actor whose works include Away From Her, Take This Waltz, and Stories We Tell. As an actor, Polley starred in a variety of films including The Sweet Hereafter, Go, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. Nobody, and My Life Without Me.
In 2022, Polley released an autobiographical collection of essays – Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory.
More recently, Polley wrote and directed the film adaptation of Miriam Toews’s novel Women Talking, which has since been nominated for several awards, including the Academy Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, and Golden Globe Awards.
IG: @realsarahpolley
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