However, their arguments are sophisticated and articulate, which sometimes does stretch credibility. Unlike the men, they've been denied an education and are not only illiterate but know nothing of the world. The women have only two days to decide what path to take and how to organise their future. The eight rapists are in jail, but not for long, as the other men have gone to town to post bail. She decides, after a miscarriage, never to speak again except to children, changes her name to Melvin, and dresses as a man. Her real teeth were knocked out by her attacker.Īnother woman (played by the non-binary actor August Winter) was probably raped by her brother. One of older women, melancholy Greta ( Judith Ivey, pictured above with Claire Foy), who is devoted to her two horses and, to everyone’s annoyance, likes telling cute, moralising stories about them, has painful false teeth that are too big for her mouth. In the gaping silence was the real horror.” And until one woman catches a perpetrator, they believed the men. They told them that the blood, injuries and, in some cases, pregnancies were the work of ghosts or Satan. The men drugged them beforehand with an animal tranquilliser spray so they remember nothing the next day.
But the film – shot by cinematographer Luc Montpellier in muted, desaturated tones, with a cast that includes Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Ben Whishaw, and Frances McDormand in a cameo role – is moving, vibrant, and compelling.Īt first glance, it might seem an unpromisingly static set-up, in danger of speechifying, but Polley’s direction manages to avoid these pitfalls. In 2010, a group of women from two Mennonite families have gathered in a hayloft to debate a momentous decision. Should they leave the community, stay and fight, or do nothing and forgive the men who’ve been raping them and some of their children at night?
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