“Women Talking” on Amazon Prime for free, but not for long

Still not seen women talking, nominated for the best film directed by Sarah Polley, a few days before the Oscars ceremony? Amazon
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Prime Video has just added free access for its subscribers to the harsh parable about women struggling against sexual assault and repression in a remote religious community.

But here’s the catch: The film will only be available for free on Prime Video until 9:00 p.m. PDT Sunday, around the time the Academy Awards, theoretically, finally wrap up.

The film was produced by Orion, an independent studio whose library became part of MGM, then Amazon when the e-commerce giant acquired MGM for $8.5 billion about a year ago.

Polley, a multifaceted veteran, is also nominated for writing the screenplay for the film, which was adapted from a true story about women in a cloistered and remote religious community who debate whether to stay there after a series of assaults and betrayals by the men. of their community.

Actress and screenwriter Miriam Toews adapted the true story into a novel. She and Polley shared a USC Scripter Award for the screenplay adaptation of her book, although only Polley was nominated for the Screenwriter’s Academy Award.

The film features a remarkable cast, led by four-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand, two-time Emmy winner Claire Foy (The crown)twice Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (Carol, the girl with the dragon tattoo), Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley (The lost girl), and Emmy-winning Ben Whishaw (A very English scandal).

The film faces stiff competition for the Best Picture Oscar, including the exuberant favorite of the awards season Everything everywhere all at once (which is also available free to Prime Video subscribers) and box office beasts Top Gun: Maverick And Avatar: The Way of Water.

Two other Oscar contenders are also available for free on Prime Video, the biopic Elvis, which is also up for Best Picture and features Best Actor favorite Austin Butler among eight Oscar nominations; and that of Santiago Miter Argentina, 1985, which was nominated for Best International Feature Film.

And if you hadn’t had the chance to see women who talk before now, don’t feel bad. It has grossed a modest $7.3 million worldwide since its US debut in late December. It’s still playing in about 227 US theaters, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com, if you want to see the movie the old-fashioned way, on the big screen.

If you don’t have Amazon Prime, you can still rent or buy the movie at varying prices at almost all major online video stores.