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SARAH POLLEY
Best Adapted Screenplay, “Women Talking”
95th Annual Academy Awards
March 12, 2023
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This costume was probably created for the 2008 television miniseries John Adams, where it was worn by Sarah Polley as Abigail Adams Smith. It was reused in 2016’s Love & Friendship on Morfydd Clark as Frederica Vernon.
Costume Credit: Cecil
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Women Talking (2022)
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Women Talking
2022 | dir. Sarah Polley
#women talking#filmedit#sarah polley#rooney mara#claire foy#jessie buckley#frances mcdormand#ben whishaw#michelle mcleod#august winter#judith ivey#sheila mccarthy#films#movies#faceless
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"It's been amazing to have this evidence that we didn't sabotage the movie by creating a more humane working environment. It helps me make that case. People say, 'We don't need to reinvent the wheel.' Actually, most of the time, you do."
-- Women Talking director Sarah Polley, on the film’s awards success. Due to its traumatic content, Polley implemented regular breaks, an on-set therapist, and 10-hr days (6 fewer than a typical Hollywood shoot day). [People, 3/13/23]
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) | dir. Terry Gilliam
#the adventures of baron munchausen#terry gilliam#sarah polley#john neville#uma thurman#films#movies#cinematography#scenery#screencaps
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY EVERYONE!
“We want our children to be safe. We want to be steadfast in our faith. And we want to think.”
Women Talking (2022), dir. Sarah Polley
#movies#women talking#rooney mara#jessie buckley#ben whishaw#frances mcdormand#sarah polley#moviegifs#cinemapix#filmtvdaily#filmtvcentral#dailyflicks#*#**#international women's day#userkk#userkimb#usersakshi
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Simmer - Hayley Williams / Women Talking (2022)
#simmer#hayley williams#women talking#sarah polley#claire foy#parallels#comparatives#web weaving#feminism#music#movie#film#lyrics#rooney mara#jessie buckley#ben whishaw#frances mcdormand#sheila mccarthy#paramore
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"Nobody asked you if you wanted to brought into the world, you just ended up getting here. So the question is, now that you're here, who's asking you to stay?"
Exotica (1994) dir. Atom Egoyan
#exotica#atom egoyan#bruce greenwood#elias koteas#mia kirshner#don mckellar#sarah polley#arsinée khanjian#film screencaps#film stills#films#screencaps#cinematography
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women talking (2022)
#women talking#film#movie#cinema#art#edit#screencaps#photography#cinematography#2020s#female director#directed by women#sarah polley
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tw: rape
gyns I wanna be clear that I’m not out here to hate on Women Talking because it was a really really really great film and I love Sarah Polley and wish her nothing but the best. And even though I was confused by Toews’ choice to make so much of the book about August, I still love her writing and enjoyed the book. and I really think y’all would really like the movie and the book and you should definitely go see it if you have the chance
but we gotta talk what happens to Nettie/Melvin in the film adaptation!!
breif overview of the concept: Women Talking is loosely inspired by the events of the Manitoba Mennonite Colony in Bolivia - women were repeatedly drugged and raped in the night. they were told that they were making it up or that they’d been attacked by the devil as punishment but in reality it was the men of the colony. this happened between 2005 and 2009 but probably continued even after the men were caught and arrested
so in the book Nettie is attacked and she is impregnated and later loses her child. this is obviously traumatic. she changes her name to Melvin and begins dressing as a man. (obviously because she’s living in a traditional mennonite colony, she can never fully take on the role of a man - her job becomes caring for the children) it is very clear in the book that this (as well as her no longer speaking to adults) is a trauma response and Toews refers to this character as Nettie, Nettie/Melvin, and Melvin but settles on Melvin at the end though she ALWAYS calls Melvin ‘she’
the movie however, within like thirty seconds of introducing Nettie/Melvin the film explicitly says (via narration. like when I say explicit, I mean explicit!) that Melvin is not living as a man as a result of trauma. It was something along the lines of “Melvin was a man all along. He just couldn’t hide it any more after it happened.” So instead, being raped and losing a child act as catalyst events that make Melvin’s life as a woman untenable
and I just hate that they’ve taken the easy way out with this! it’s so much more interesting and truthful (!) to be like this character is living in an overtly hierarchical, misogynist society and on top of that she experiences a series of distinctly sex-based trauma in addition to living amongst this growing collective trauma that the women are experiencing and so she attempts to live as a man for her safety! like how can you not see that that is what’s happening
#women talking#miriam toews#sarah polley#and yeah melvin is played by an afab nb person so take that as you will#i could (and very well may) do a better analysis but this is going off memory of the movie#there's also a lot to be said about how they tackle Nettie/Melvin's not speaking in themovie vs in the book#in the movie Melvin only talks to the adults once and that's when they finally call her melvin#and she says 'thanks for using my name'#and thats it!#but the book does so much more interesting things with her speech!!!!!#ugh!#like really sarah did you have to forgo actually interesting plotlines to appease the trans crowd#i mean you probably did
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) dir. Zack Snyder.
day 20 of 31
#halloween#dawn of the dead#2004#horror#31 days of horror#31 days of halloween#spooky season#spooktober#action#zombies#zack snyder#gore#mood#sarah polley#jake weber#ty burrell#ving rhames#tom savini#mekhi phifer#boyd banks#day 20 of 31
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Women in Film Challenge 2023: [58/52] Women Talking, dir. Sarah Polley (USA, 2022)
When we woke up, feeling hands that were no longer there, the elders told us it was the work of ghosts or Satan. Or that we were lying to get attention. Or that it was an act of wild female imagination. It went on for years. To all of us. It felt like weightlessness. It felt like drifting over what used to be real. It felt like a banishment, as though we had no invitation anymore to be part of the real.
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Women Talking (2022)
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Hope for the unknown is good. It is better than hatred of the familiar.
WOMEN TALKING (2022) dir. Sarah Polley
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