When faced with continuous oppression, what choices do you have? Do nothing? Stay and fight? Or leave? In Sarah Polley’s crystalline, provocative adaptation of Miriam Towes’ novel, a group of women, living in an isolated community, contemplate their future together after a startling revelation. Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Sheila McCarthy and Judith Ivey start the life-changing conversation and Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand play supporting roles in a film that opens a new world to talk about. (U.S., 2022, 104m)
“Gathers extraordinary emotional force, and genuine spiritual weight … an angry, compassionate parable of Christian belief and female empowerment — two forces, often thought to be irreconcilable, that are shown here to be intrinsically bound.” –LA Times
