Don’t let the title fool you. The name of Sarah Polley’s film Women Talking isn’t merely another post #MeToo saga. The film, which is up for a best picture Oscar, is based on monstrous real events that occurred in a remote, ultraconservative Mennonite religious community in the mid-2000s.
More than 100 women and girls were raped in the Manitoba Colony in Bolivia by men who had drugged their victims with animal tranquiliser.
The case inspired Canadian author Miriam Toews, who has based some of her work on her own childhood in a Mennonite colony, to write a novel in reaction.
