Women Talking (2022)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.76:1 104m
Director: Sarah Polley
Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand
Synopsis:
In a remote religious community, referred to as 'the colony', the women, who have been systematically abused by the menfolk, have two days to decide whether to forgive, fight or leave.
Review:
At least no one can claim it doesn't do what it says on the tin, but Polley's gambit of excluding the tormentors from her film, and relaxing any grip on narrative, is counter-productive quite apart from its talkativeness. We at first assume we are in some remoter past, but it gradually becomes clear we are in present-day America. This loose approach to context again reduces dramatic tension, as does the continually deferred return of the men and vagueness over the imposition of a time limit. As with a Sofia Coppola or Terence Malick film, the undeniable beauty of the images is at one with the flabbiness of the writing, and the adoption of an ultra-wide aspect ratio is just bizarre.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.76:1 104m
Director: Sarah Polley
Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand
Synopsis:
In a remote religious community, referred to as 'the colony', the women, who have been systematically abused by the menfolk, have two days to decide whether to forgive, fight or leave.
Review:
At least no one can claim it doesn't do what it says on the tin, but Polley's gambit of excluding the tormentors from her film, and relaxing any grip on narrative, is counter-productive quite apart from its talkativeness. We at first assume we are in some remoter past, but it gradually becomes clear we are in present-day America. This loose approach to context again reduces dramatic tension, as does the continually deferred return of the men and vagueness over the imposition of a time limit. As with a Sofia Coppola or Terence Malick film, the undeniable beauty of the images is at one with the flabbiness of the writing, and the adoption of an ultra-wide aspect ratio is just bizarre.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.76:1 104m
Director: Sarah Polley
Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand
Synopsis:
In a remote religious community, referred to as 'the colony', the women, who have been systematically abused by the menfolk, have two days to decide whether to forgive, fight or leave.
Review:
At least no one can claim it doesn't do what it says on the tin, but Polley's gambit of excluding the tormentors from her film, and relaxing any grip on narrative, is counter-productive quite apart from its talkativeness. We at first assume we are in some remoter past, but it gradually becomes clear we are in present-day America. This loose approach to context again reduces dramatic tension, as does the continually deferred return of the men and vagueness over the imposition of a time limit. As with a Sofia Coppola or Terence Malick film, the undeniable beauty of the images is at one with the flabbiness of the writing, and the adoption of an ultra-wide aspect ratio is just bizarre.