Deborah Ross

Much more gripping than it sounds: Women Talking reviewed

Like Twelve Angry Men but with eight women (in a hayloft)

Left to right: Michelle McLeod (Mejal), Sheila McCarthy (Greta), Liv McNeil (Neitje), Jessie Buckley (Mariche), Claire Foy (Salome), Kate Hallett (Autje), Rooney Mara (Ona) and Judith Ivey (Agata) in Women Talking. Credit: Michael Gibson. © 2022 Orion Releasing LLC. All Rights Reserved. 
issue 11 February 2023

Women Talking, which has received Oscar nominations for best picture and adapted screenplay, is one of those films that, on paper, is a hard sell. It is women talking, and talking and talking, after enduring the most horrifying experience at the hands of men. All of which sounds barely cinematic and even less entertaining.

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