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Directed by | Sarah Polley |
Screenplay by | Sarah Polley |
Based on | Women Talking by Miriam Toews |
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Cinematography | Luc Montpellier |
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Music by | Hildur Guðnadóttir |
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Distributed by | United Artists Releasing (United States) Universal Pictures[1] (International) |
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Running time | 104 minutes[2] |
Country | United States[2] |
Language | English |
Budget | $20 million |
Box office | $9.3 million[3][4] |
Women Talking is a 2022 American drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley. Based on the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, itself inspired by the gas-facilitated rapes that occurred at the Manitoba Colony, a remote and isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia,[5] the film follows a group of American Mennonite women who discuss their future, following their discovery of the men's history of raping the colony's women. It features an ensemble cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand, who also served as a producer on the film. It is the last film to be released by United Artists Releasing, before it was folded into MGM on March 4, 2023.[6] Subsequent MGM films, starting with Creed III, were distributed by MGM itself under Amazon's ownership.[6]
Women Talking premiered at the 49th Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2022, and was released in the United States via select theaters on December 23, 2022, before a wide release on January 27, 2023, by United Artists Releasing.[7][8] The film received positive reviews from critics, who lauded Polley's screenplay and direction, the performances of the cast (particularly of Foy, Buckley, and Whishaw) and score but underperformed at the box-office grossing $9.3 million against a $20 million budget. It was named one of the top ten films of 2022 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute,[9] won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards, 75th Writers Guild of America Awards, and the 95th Academy Awards, where it was also nominated for Best Picture.[10][11]
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