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Sarah Polley haș long been one of Canada’s best-kept secrets.
That’s over.
Polley’s first film in a decade, Women Talking, has everybody talking — about it last week saying it was not to be missed: “
A deeply affecting look at the fraught coexistence of men and women, Women Talking is based on the novel by Miriam Toews.
The story is set in a Mennonite community, where the women must decide their future after a series of sexual assaults. Women Talking stars Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley, Claire Foy, Frances McDormand, Sheila McCarthy and Ben Whishaw. It’s in theatres Dec. 23.
As for Women Talking, it was the most talked-about movie at TIFF. The Oscar buzz started immediately.
How did Polley knowshe could make the jump from actor to director?
Women Talking got two Golden Globe nominations last week, but the movie isn’t
best-selling memoir, eleased in the spring;
Jian Ghomeshi — she was 16, he was 28 — years before he was publicly accused of sexual assault by several women.
Raising children has put a lot of things into perspective for her, Polley said, and so she wasn’t worried about returning to filmmaking after a decade away.
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