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25th(2023)



Sarah POLLEY

  • United States
  • 2022
  • Korean Premiere
  • 104min
  • DCP
  • color

Korean Premiere

SYNOPSIS

Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, the film follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony¡¯s men. 

PROGRAM NOTE

One day, the women in the village wake up with bruised and bleeding bodies. Some of them were even pregnant. The traces of violence left on their bodies are clear, but the men dismissed the women's words as vain delusions. The day when all the men in the village left for the city, the women started taking about three options. Do nothing, or stay and fight, or leave. Women Talking depicts the process of women who have been forced to remain silent all their lives, discussing and expressing their opinions for the first time and making important decisions that put their future on the line. Therefore, it makes sense to squeak. The violence and abuse they experienced cannot be summarized in plain language. Responses to trauma also differ from person to person. Nevertheless, these women continue to conflict and collide as they speak, confront their pain, and make an effort to speak up, connecting the language for a better tomorrow. Those works that go beyond murmurs, and screams become tools and weapons to understand and believe in oneself and share life's wisdom and love with others. Based on the novel of the same name written by Miriam Toews based on an actual event in the Mennonite community of Manitoba Colony in Bolivia in 2011, the film deals with group sexual assault cases using anesthetics. However, not only the perpetrators but also their harmful acts are nowhere to be found. Sarah Polley's fourth feature film features outstanding actors such as Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Jessie Buckley.  [Programmer SON Sinae]

Director

  • Sarah POLLEYSarah POLLEY

    Born in Toronto in 1979, Sarah Polley is an acclaimed actor, director, screenwriter, and political activist. She first won acclaim as a child actor for her role as Ramona Quimby in the television series Ramona (1988–89). Polley later moved behind the camera for a series of acclaimed dramas, including Away from Her (2006), Take This Waltz (2011), and a documentary Stories We Tell (2012). She won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her latest feature film Women Talking.

Credit

  • ProducerDede GARDNER, Jeremy KLEINER, Frances MCDORMAND
  • Cast Rooney MARA, Judith IVEY, Claire FOY, Jessie BUCKLEY, Ben WHISHAW, Frances MCDORMAND
  • Screenwriter Sarah POLLEY
  • Cinematography Luc MONTPELLIER
  • Editor Christopher DONALDSON, Roslyn KALLOO