Frances McDormand to star in Sarah Polley’s Women Talking

We have done literally nothing to deserve such an iconic collaboration, and yet we are blessed (and grateful) for it. Frances McDormand has signed on to star in Sarah Polley’s next directorial effort, and her first since the remarkable 2012 doc Stories We Tell. Per Variety, McDormand will produce and star in Women Talking, based on the bestselling novel by Miriam Toews and adapted for the screen by Polley herself. Published in 2018, Women Talking follows a group of women at a Mennonite colony in Bolivia as they come to the devastating realization that they’ve been systematically sexually assaulted by men in their community, and set out to protect themselves and their daughters from further trauma. McDormand will, presumably, absolutely end some of these men.