BROOKFIELD, Vt. — Amid the backdrop of whining power drills is the soothing sound of young women singing hymns as they paint. The women are volunteers from the Mennonite Disaster Service who willingly ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mennonite teenagers performing their daily chores at home.Lisa Wiltse/Corbis via Getty Images "Women Talking" tells the story of ...
Sarah Polley’s Women Talking tells a harrowing story of women in an isolated Mennonite colony attempting to find justice in the wake of vicious abuse by the men of their community. Adapted from Miriam ...
At 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 ...
Content warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual harassment and assault. Critics have been buzzing about the Oscar potential of the movie "Women Talking" since its world premiere at the ...
SAN JUAN COUNTY, N.M. – Authorities believe a Mennonite woman who went missing in New Mexico in January was kidnapped and murdered. The San Juan Sheriff’s Office says the body of 27-year-old Sasha ...
Women Talking is one of those pared back films that gets right to the point. There are no bells and whistles, just a group of women, trying to decide how to react in the face of violence. It’s a story ...