Sarah Polley’s newest movie as author and director, Girls Speaking, is already producing loads of buzz from competition screenings. And now the primary trailer for the movie, which options Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley amongst its solid, has a primary trailer on-line.

With Polley right here adapting Miriam Toews’ novel, the logline is pretty simple: “In 2010, the ladies of an remoted non secular group grapple with reconciling their actuality with their religion.” However the movie guarantees one thing that could be very a lot not.

Alongside the principle trio, there’s a deep bench of actors Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.

“In Girls Speaking, a gaggle of girls, lots of whom disagree on important issues, have a dialog to determine how they may transfer ahead collectively to construct a greater world for themselves and their youngsters,” says Polley in a director’s assertion. “Although the backstory behind the occasions in Girls Speaking is violent, the movie will not be. We by no means see the violence that the ladies have skilled. We see solely brief glimpses of the aftermath. As a substitute, we watch a group of girls come collectively as they have to determine, in a really brief house of time, what their collective response might be.”

You may see extra from her and the remainder of the solid and crew in a brand new featurette, sitting on the backside of the web page.

Girls Speaking might be in UK cinemas from 10 February subsequent 12 months.

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