The filmmaker didn’t think she was up for tackling Miriam Toews’ novel about a group of Mennonite women dealing with the trauma of sexual assault until she could figure out how to make a film that was intimate, epic — and funny.
, which Polley wrote and directed, arrives in theaters Dec. 23 from United Artists. Like the novel, much of Polley’s adaptation unfolds in the hayloft, as actors including Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Judith Ivey play Mennonite women debating and discussing their options, and Ben Whishaw plays a colony man taking the minutes of the meeting.
Polley on set. The filmmaker initially had reservations about the project: “I didn’t quite understand how it could be made into a film, but I got really curious about trying to figure that out.”At the time, Polley’s three children were under age 8, and she thought she might talk to the producers about just writing the adaptation, not directing it.
From left: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod and Jessie Buckley in. Says director Sarah Polley: “We were asking so much of people emotionally, to go to such deep, difficult territory, that people had to feel safe and supported and held up by each other.”Because of COVID-19, production was delayed for a full year, to summer 2021. With that extra time, Polley, Gardner and McDormand honed the script and the casting.
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