Margaret Steffler, an English professor at Trent University who has studied Toews’ work extensively, believes this adds to the film’s artistic and thematic character. But through every word, they develop a clearer image of what their liberation may look like. Most of the time, the women are gathered in a dark hayloft, engaging in a debate about their uncertain futures. In the film Women Talking, set diversity is sparse. Toews, a Steinbach native, describes the fictitious work as “an act of female imagination.” The film has received widespread critical acclaim and is currently nominated for two Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The fictional story depicts the abuse and sexual assaults that took place between 2005 to 2009 on the Manitoba Mennonite colony in Bolivia.
Sarah Polley’s directorial take on Miriam Toews’ Women Talking depicts a tale of women’s liberation in an insular Mennonite colony in Latin America. The cinematic adaptation of one of Manitoba’s most celebrated novelists has hit the big screens.
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