(The other Toews adaptation of 2022, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, is about members of an isolated Mennonite community trying to reconcile their faith with sexual assaults within the group.) The comic coda to said scene is a complete corker.Īll My Puny Sorrows focuses closely on the bond between the sisters – and as luck would have it, the two actors attended the same Toronto schools and knew each other as children.īut it also encompasses the ways that religion tries (and sometimes fails) to provide comfort in times of stress. Which brings us to the second unforgettable scene, a mere minute and a half long, in which Yoli has words with a stranger in the hospital’s parking garage, totally losing it, before running into her mother (Mare Winningham) inside the building. It’s a microcosm of drama, a little mini-movie in the midst of a larger story that is tinged with the dark hues of a family’s history with suicide, but also with lighter moments of grace and even humour. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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