Review of Women Talking (2022) by Jluis_001 — 02 Jan 2023
This film is a debate, a sort of 12 Angry Men, but as its title says, now it's the women who have the voice, although its predicament is about something much more serious.
The structure of the film is entirely made to favor dialogue, so the performances and the level of dialogue are the strong points of this story. And boy, does this film have a top-notch cast.
The weakness of this film lies in the fact that this very structure turns the whole narrative exercise into something too contrived to feel organic. Not that the nature of the debate is a bad thing, but at its core the cinematic essence of the debate feels more like an intellectual contrivance than a discussion in which the decisions made there will be seismic for all the women involved.
And in this case what happened in real life is what will give you the true ending of this story.
This review of Women Talking (2022) was written by Jluis_001 on 02 Jan 2023.
Women Talking has generally received positive reviews.
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