“Women Talking” is just weeks away from hitting theaters. “Where I come from, where your mother comes from, we didn’t talk about our bodies,” we’re told in a new trailer for Sarah Polley’s highly anticipated awards contender. Based on Miriam Toews’ novel of the same name, “Women Talking” is inspired by real events and tells the story of a remote religious colony in crisis. A series of attacks have been perpetuated against the the community’s girls and women. In the wake of widespread sexual assault, the women band together to decide their future. “We hardly knew how to read or write, but that day we learned how to vote,”
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