Women Talking — in the running for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at next month\u0027s Oscars — is the first film Polley has directed in a decade
Carried by a powerhouse cast including Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley, Women Talking is set in the tense 24-hour period following the perpetrators’ arrests. The Mennonite elders have not only gone to bail the men out, but have given the victims an ultimatum: stay and forgive, or leave and accept eternal damnation. Yet the women come up with a third possibility — stay and fight. Up in a hayloft, they discuss their options over the course of the film.
In Run Towards the Danger, a collection of autobiographical essays published last year, Polley revealed how traumatic her early years in showbusiness had been. Born in Toronto in 1979, she first appeared on screen in the 1985 Disney film One Magic Christmas. Her mother, Diane, was an actress and casting director. Her father, Michael, a British-born actor and a Monty Python fan, was thrilled when Sarah was cast as plucky Sally Salt in Terry Gilliam’s 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Soon after the filming of Munchausen, Polley’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, and in the week Sarah turned 11, Diane died. “You’re so adaptable as a kid,” Polley recalls. “Everything keeps moving. It took me many years to realize how big that loss was… and how much it impacted me.” Polley then took time away from film to raise her three children with her second husband, law professor David Sandomierski, but, in the intervening years, she spoke out about #MeToo. In 2017, she wrote in The New York Times about being summoned in the late 1990s, at the age of 19, to meet producer Harvey Weinstein .Article content
On the set of Women Talking, she says, “the cast and crew were generous in sharing their own stories, which were then woven into the film”. Listening to them, Polley became increasingly aware of how “women turn past trauma into funny stories, and live with them that way for years, until we realise: ‘Oh, that wasn’t that funny after all.’Article content
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