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Ce qu'elles disent ()

Women Talking (original title)
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Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
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Ona
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Agata
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Miep
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Autje
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Neitje
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Salome
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Greta
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Mariche
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Mejal
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Anna
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Helena
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Scarface Janz
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Clara (as Vivien Endicott-Douglas)
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August
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Melvin
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Julius (as Lochlan Miller)
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Aaron
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Census Driver
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Klaas
Emily Drake ...
Dark Haired Woman
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Cornelius
Caroline Gillis ...
Woman on the Path
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Mennonite Man (uncredited)
Shannon Widdis ...
Girl on Porch (uncredited)

Directed by

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Sarah Polley ... (directed by)

Written by

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Sarah Polley ... (screenplay by)
 
Miriam Toews ... (based upon the book by)

Produced by

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Emily Jade Foley ... executive producer
Dede Gardner ... producer (produced by) (p.g.a.)
Jeremy Kleiner ... producer (produced by) (p.g.a.)
Lyn Lucibello ... executive producer (as Lyn Lucibello Brancatella)
Frances McDormand ... producer (produced by) (p.g.a.)
Brad Pitt ... executive producer

Music by

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Hildur Guðnadóttir ... composer

Cinematography by

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Luc Montpellier

Editing by

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Christopher Donaldson
Roslyn Kalloo

Editorial Department

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Patrick Duchesne ... digital intermediate producer
Rob Gyorgy ... digital intermediate editor
Howard Hamilton ... assistant editor
Mark Kueper ... digital intermediate colorist
Robert LeBlanc ... dailies operator
Emma Sanders ... post-production coordinator
Craig Scorgie ... first assistant editor
Alyssa Tomaneng ... post-production coordinator

Casting By

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John Buchan
Jason Knight

Production Design by

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Peter Cosco

Art Direction by

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Andrea Kristof

Set Decoration by

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Friday Myers

Costume Design by

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Quita Alfred

Makeup Department

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Jaime Donnelly ... hair stylist
Susan Exton-Stranks ... hair department head
Anita Guastella ... assistant makeup department head
Antoinette Julien ... key hair stylist
Shauna Llewellyn ... makeup department head
Jennifer O'Connor ... assistant makeup artist
Larissa Palaszczuk ... first assistant makeup artist
Amy Pigeon ... assistant makeup artist
Ashley Rocha ... makeup artist
Kelly Whetter ... key hair stylist
Nigel James White ... assistant hair stylist

Production Management

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Jessica Cheung ... production manager
Lyn Lucibello ... unit production manager (as Lyn Lucibello Brancatella)
Lori A. Waters ... post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Sartaj Aulakh ... third assistant director
Emily Drake ... second assistant director
Andrea Luff ... third assistant director
Daniel J. Murphy ... first assistant director

Art Department

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Alexa Anthony ... set dec buyer
Mira Apci ... set designer
Thomas Barker ... head carpenter
Nate Bellamy ... set dresser
Medi Brancatella ... assistant head carpenter
Duarte Carreiro ... set dresser
Steven Cordeiro ... set dresser
Janet Cormack ... scenic artist
Cathy Dalrymple ... assistant head carpenter
Sonia Gemmiti ... set designer
Owain Harris ... carpenter
Andrea Hay ... set dec buyer
Robert Hillman ... set dresser
Astrid Ho ... art department coordinator
Peter Karmazsin ... assistant set decorator
Karleena Kelly ... props
Jonathan Kovacs ... set dresser
Stephen Levitt ... property master
Sam Lloyd ... storyboard artist
Dylan Marshall ... set dresser
Michael McGregor ... assistant head carpenter
David Milner ... set dresser
Patrick Nunziata ... set dresser
Chris O'Keefe ... trainee assistant art director
Don Quan ... 2nd head painter
Steve Quon ... head painter
Victor 'Chikko' Quon ... key scenic
Tom Raczka ... location head carpenter
Andrew Redekop ... set designer
Phillip Tellez ... construction coordinator
Mayuko Udea ... graphic designer
Cheyne Valeriote ... construction labourer
John Van Lieshout ... assistant property master
Lucas J. Wareing ... model maker

Sound Department

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Davi Aquino ... foley recordist
Chelsea Body ... foley mixer
Jennie Breckenridge ... adr recordist (as Jennie Shea)
Alex Bullick ... sound effects editor
Richard Calistan ... adr mixer
Jenna Dalla Riva ... foley editor
Mark DeSimone ... adr mixer
Paolo Di Teodoro ... sound utility: dailies
Herwig Gayer ... sound mixer
Steve Hammond ... foley artist
Krystin Hunter ... dialogue editor
John 'Wheels' Hurlbut ... on-set operator: Cubase
Alicia Jeffery ... adr group coordinator
Kevin Jung ... foley editor
Christopher King ... foley editor
Nick Kray ... adr mixer
Andy Malcolm ... foley artist
David McCallum ... supervising sound editor
Ella Melanson ... assistant re-recording mixer
Bianca Monteiro ... sound project coordinator
Joe Morrow ... re-recording mixer
Siamak Omrani ... sound designer
Nick Roberts ... adr mixer
Ormangoren Rony ... boom operator
Lou Solakofski ... re-recording mixer
Jane Tattersall ... supervising sound editor
Mia Theberge ... adr group coordinator

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Stacy Campbell ... special effects key
Ryan Coleman ... special effects 1st assistant (uncredited)

Visual Effects by

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Kevin Chandoo ... visual effects supervisor
Scott Dougherty ... visual effects executive: MGM
Bryan Foster ... visual effects coordinator: MGM
Dipak Gaur ... compositor
Hardave Grewal ... digital compositor
Kim Hong Kyoung ... digital compositor
Michael Kowalski ... VFX: Executive Producer: Ghost VFX
Agnes Lim ... visual effects producer
Jennifer Maillet ... digital compositor
Sarah McGrail ... visual effects executive producer: Ghost VFX
Bo Mosley ... digital artist
Ken Nielsen ... compositing supervisor
David S. Sanchez ... scanning supervisor
Seema Schere ... matte painter: Ghost VFX
Mark Schreiber ... animator
Craig Scorgie ... visual effects editor
Cameron Smith ... visual effects coordinator
Dean Wright ... Visual Effects Executive: MGM

Stunts

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Bracken Camilleri ... stunt performer
Gabrielle Anne Desy ... stunt double: Claire Foy / stunts (as Gabrielle Ann Diesy)
Don Gough ... stunt rigger
Melissa Kelly ... stunt double: Frances McDormand / stunts
Angela Kosteski ... stunt double: Kate Hallett
Bob Lamon ... stunt rigger
Josh Madryga ... utility stunts
Patrick Mark ... stunt coordinator
Luke McCoag ... stunts
Layton Morrison ... stunt coordinator
Jennifer Murray ... stunt performer / stunts
Curtis Parker ... stunts
Bj Prince ... stunt performer
Brian Roworth ... stunts
Mark Schneider ... stunt performer
Remington Schneider ... stunts
Jamie James Yungblut ... stunts (as Jamie Yungblood)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Tyrin Alcott ... grip
Maika Boettcher ... camera utility
Sean Bourdeau ... Assistant Key Grip
Torstein Colyer ... crane technician
Tom Comet ... drone pilot
Brent J. Craig ... additional first assistant camera / first assistant camera: drone
Maesa Djenar ... second assistant camera: A camera
Tien Dong ... Rigging grip
Richard Emerson ... key grip
Stéphanie Girard-Hamelin ... video coordinator: main unit
Kelly Hearns ... video assist
Tyra Houghton ... camera trainee
Sean Jensen ... A-Camera Operator
Joshua Jinchereau ... digital imaging technician
Ryan Kilbourne ... daily camera trainee
Lainie Knox ... camera operator
Nasim Kosarnia ... lighting technician
Patrick Krauter ... dolly grip: "b" camera
Desiree Lidon ... lighting console programmer
Andrew Macklin ... first assistant camera
Stefan J. Marchand ... Drone: Pilot / Drone: Safety
Nathan Meade ... epk camera operator
Julie Ng ... On-set Videographer
R. Scott Phillips ... gaffer
William Scheffel ... second assistant camera
Joe Schroeder ... grip
John Vrakking ... key rigging grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Jennifer Bunt ... assistant costume designer
Laura Fines ... background set supervisor
Kristie Paille ... costume supervisor
Genevieve Pearson ... set costumer assistant
Samantha Washington ... illustrator
Carol Wong ... costume supervisor

Location Management

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Sandra Mikki ... location scout
Jeremy Pinard ... location manager
Anne Richardson ... location manager

Music Department

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Holly Adams ... soundtrack executive
Jeff Atmajian ... orchestrator / string orchestra conductor
Jacob Braun ... musician: cello
Leonard Chong ... musician: violin
Francesco Donadello ... score mixer
Hildur Guðnadóttir ... score producer / score recorder
Tóti Guðnason ... additional arrangement (as Toti Gudnason)
Greg Hayes ... scoring mixer
Eyvind Kang ... score recorder
Philip Klein ... string orchestra conductor
Patty Macmillan ... composer agent
Mandy Mamlet ... music supervisor
Whitney Martin ... orchestra contractor
Jason Poss ... music preparation
Marc Robinson ... soundtrack executive
Jason Ruder ... music editor
Sam Slater ... additional music production
Skuli Sverrisson ... additional composition / musician: featured guitar and acoustic bass / score recorder
Gunnar Tynes ... composer's assistant
Rick Vincent Will ... composer's assistant
Gina Zimmitti ... orchestra contractor

Script and Continuity Department

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Consuelo Solar ... script supervisor

Transportation Department

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Joe Burke ... Swamper
R.J. Guha ... driver
Arlene Halpenny-Heeley ... cast driver: Judith Ivey
Dana Howes ... transport consultant
Joe S. Norris ... transportation coordinator
Sara Pickett ... transportation administrator

Additional Crew

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Nabil Badine ... Unit Manager
Tom Bishop Jr. ... horse wrangler
Shauna Black ... looping
Rae Ellen Bodie ... pre-production acting coach: Vivienne Endicott-Douglas
Sabrina Budiman ... assistant editor
Chas Dabby ... Travel Agent
Gemma Eva ... covid-19 set monitor
Ashley Fields ... Physical Production Coordinator
Emma Hannaway ... assistant: Frances McDormand
Brett Hayman ... covid compliance officer
Deborah Jourdain ... Physical Production Coordinator
Lou Madolev ... first assistant accountant
Luz Magcawas ... 1st Assistant Accountant Payroll
Vassilia Michailidis ... health and safety coordinator
Lindsey Molnar ... production coordinator
Lisa Norton ... looping
Emily Piggford ... looping
Lisa Shamata ... unit publicist
Sat Sidhu ... set teacher
Justin Stephenson ... Main Title Design
Kirsten Tobey ... production finance manager
Brett Tyne ... adr dialect coach
Marcia Zepeda ... 2nd assistant accountant

Thanks

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Carol Wong ... in memory of

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. Though the backstory, we see a community of women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight or leave. They will not do nothing. Written by Official synopsis

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Taglines Do Nothing. Stay And Fight. Leave. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Die Aussprache (Germany)
  • Ellas hablan (Spain)
  • Ellas hablan (Venezuela)
  • Ellas hablan (Argentina)
  • Konuşan Kadınlar (Turkey, Turkish title)
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  • 104 min
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Trivia The movie Women Talking is based on Miriam Toews's 2018 novel of the same name, which was in turn based on a true story of vicious serial rapes in an insular, ultraconservative Mennonite community in Bolivia. From 2005 to 2009, nine men in the remote Manitoba Colony, using livestock tranquilizers, drugged female victims ranging in age from three to sixty and violently raped them at night. When the girls and women awoke bruised and covered in blood, the men of the colony dismissed their reports as delusions--even when they became pregnant from the assaults--or punishments from God or by demons for their supposed sins. According to a May 2019 BBC article by Linda Pressly, when the rapists were finally caught, they were arrested by Bolivian authorities. One fled from justice, but the other eight were tried and convicted. Seven were sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for the repeated, multiple rapes, and an eighth was convicted for providing the drug but then released. A 2013 Vice article by Jean Friedman-Rudovsky revealed that the druggings and rapes did not stop with those particular men's arrest; she also reported that some of the men had also raped some men and boys in the colony. See more »
Goofs Nettie identifies as a man name "Melvin". The Mennonite do not allow members to identify as anything other than their biological sex and gender. In real life, Nettie would have been excommunicated. There are over one hundred different Anabaptist (Amish, Brethren, Hutterite, Mennonite) church groups, counting more than 6,000 congregations, all holding to slightly different traditions and their own interpretations of the Bible. The movie never identified the Anabaptist group of the colony. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Claire Foy/Sarah Michelle Gellar/M. Night Shyamalan/Rob Beckett/Sam Smith (2023). See more »
Soundtracks Daydream Believer See more »
Quotes Ona: Hope for the unknown is good. It is better than hatred of the familiar.
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