From CSU's School of Film & Media Arts: "You are invited to an advanced screening of the highly anticipated film WOMEN TALKING based upon the book by Miriam Toews. Directed and screenplay by Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Sheila Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Kate Hallett, Liv McNeil, August Winter, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. #WomenTalking.

This screening will be shown and hosted by CSU's School of Film & Media Arts and Professor Michelle Martello who will introduce the film and host a Q&A!

DATE: Friday, December 2^nd   

TIME: 4:00 PM

THEATER: CSU School of Film & Media Arts Theater 

To reserve a spot please click on the link (or copy and paste) to download a ticket - you will have to register on UAR Ticktbox which takes a minute:

https://uareleasingscreenings.com/main/movie_landing/V09NRU5DU1VGSUxNMg%3D%3D

SYNOPSIS:  

In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. 

STATEMENT FROM WRITER/DIRECTOR SARAH POLLEY 

In Women Talking, a group of women, many of whom disagree on essential things, have a conversation to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. 

Though the backstory behind the events in Women Talking is violent, the film is not. We never see the violence that the women have experienced. We see only short glimpses of the aftermath. Instead, we watch a community of women come together as they must decide, in a very short space of time, what their collective response will be. 

When I read Miriam Toews’ book, it sunk deep into me, raising questions and thoughts about the world I live in that I had never articulated. Questions about forgiveness, faith, systems of power, trauma, healing, culpability, community, and self-determination. It also left me bewilderingly hopeful.  

I imagined this film in the realm of a fable. While the story in the film is specific to a small religious community, I felt that it needed a large canvas, an epic scope through which to reflect the enormity and universality of the questions raised in the film. To this end, it felt imperative that the visual language of the film breathe and expand. I wanted to feel in every frame the endless potential and possibility contained in a conversation about how to remake a broken world."