A gripping prison-break film in which women are the prisoners and men the jailers

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There isn’t a barred window or barbed-wire-topped wall to be found in Women Talking, but it’s a prison-break film nonetheless. The latest feature from the Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley unfolds in a staunch religious community whose female members – drugged and raped in their sleep for years by men who must number among their husbands, fathers and sons – have every reason to want to escape.