Poised somewhere between rhetoric and dream, Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley's adaptation of Miriam Toews's 2018 novel – in which a group of women meet in secret to plot their response to systemic male violence – might be explicitly designed as allegory, with obvious resonance in the current cultural climate, but it proves to be much more than a simple provocation or #MeToo tract.
CONTENT WARNING: This story discusses sexual assault.
