‘Women Talking’ Squanders Its Chance to Tell a Great Trans Story

Dec 26 2022 by The Daily Beast

 
Michael Gibson

Women Talking, the latest film from Canadian director Sarah Polley, is a challenging story about a group of women debating how they should respond to devastating circumstances. For years, the women of a remote Mennonite community have been drugged and raped. When the women voiced their concerns that something horrifying was going on while they were slept, they were told merely that the devil was punishing them, or that it was simply in their heads. When one of the women awakes...

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