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Director Sarah Polley on the significance of her new film Women Talking

Sarah Polley:

This is not limited to women in this particular sect. I mean, certainly, there's an extremity and a horror that happened in this community, that it's easier for that to happen in an isolated community where there's no contact with the outside world and where there's such a hierarchical power structure.

But I also just didn't want to give people permission to say, this — these are only issues that people are dealing with in these kinds of communities, because, of course, we're dealing with them every day in our own.

In Montreal, father used to take me all the time.

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