Winner of the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay (Canada’s own Sarah Polley).
Writer-director Sarah Polley’s fearless adaptation of Miriam Toews’ acclaimed novel grants us access to a tight-knit, cloistered religious colony.
Reeling from multiple counts of sexual abuse, newly uncovered within their Mennonite colony, a group of women gather in a hayloft to discuss how to respond. While the men are away, the women narrow their options down to three: do nothing, stay and fight, or leave.
A powerful, moving tribute to quiet strength — and, unexpectedly, to hope.
Seattle Times
Insightfully complex, for a film where almost every meaningful minute takes place in the dusty hayloft of a creaky old barn, this is as tense and as suspenseful a thriller as anything I’ve seen in 2022.
Sarah Michelle Fetters
| Genre |
Best Picture Oscar NomineeCanadianDrama
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| Runtime | 104 minutes |
| Rated | 14A: disturbing content, sexual abuse |
| Directed By | Sarah Polley |
| Starring | Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand |
| Language | English |
| Country |
CanadaUSA
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