The women in question here belong to a secluded rural religious order on unidentified prairieland and the talking they do throughout Sarah Polley’s immaculately made, intellectually adventurous and…
and is due from Orion and MGM in theaters on December 2. The new film is initially set in a barn where eight trauma survivors discuss and deliberate on their dreadful experiences growing up and being repeatedly raped and in other ways brutalized. But this is not a documentary, nor even a courtroom drama, and in no way feels like one.
This leads to considerable debate–about forgiveness, resilience, punishment, the need for change, the possibilities of radical reform. Doing nothing proves not an option at all, but the discussions nonetheless persist for two days in regard to the other two. From the beginning, Polley works on developing a tone that is beguiling in its elusiveness; it’s frisky and yet dead serious, dreamy but committed to life’s essentials, aesthetically playful even when dealing with harsh realities. It skips and dances and is hard to nail down even as it prepares to deliver its heavyweight blows—it really does float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.
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