Women’s Trauma Reverberates at the Cinema This Fall

I’ve been thinking about the portrayal of women’s trauma onscreen this fall. It started back at the Toronto International Film Festival with “The Woman King,” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and “Women Talking,” written and directed by Sarah Polley. I saw those movies back-to-back on a September morning. I went from seeing a woman who took her trauma and became a literal warrior leader, to seeing women who were so traumatized by the men in their community that they had to make the most difficult decision imaginable: whether they should stay amongst their abusers or leave the only homes they have ever known. And then about a month later, I