![]() Their accounts were dismissed as the ‘wild female imagination’ and were told that it was the devil punishing them, until one night one of the men is caught in the act. The women and girls would wake up knowing something terrible had occurred but not knowing exactly what had happened to them. The men would feed an animal anaesthetic through their windows in the middle of the night to ensure they would not wake whilst they were raped and assaulted. ![]() What occurred between this period was the rape and assault of over a hundred women and girls by the hands of the men in the colony, the youngest victim being only 4 years old. Toews’ book, released in 2019, is an imagined response to the very real events that took place between 20 in a remote and isolated Mennonite colony in America. ![]() Sarah Polley, who has previously given us thoughtful and introspective gems with the likes of Take This Waltz starring Michelle Williams and her biographical documentary Stories We Tell that beautifully inspects her own familial life, has returned to the screen with her eagerly anticipated adaptation of Miriam Toews’ book, Women Talking. ![]() Photo credit: Michael Gibson © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. ![]()
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