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“The Handmaid’s Tale,” now cutting its additional division in Toronto, depicts a near-future dystopia area women are affected into surrogacy for a absolute elite. “Alias Grace,” meanwhile, is a six-part aeon allotment based on the baffling abstruseness of a poor charwoman (Sarah Gadon) who either abetted the murders of her bang-up and his housekeeper/lover (Anna Paquin), or was sacrificed by Victorian moralists for actuality a little too free, a little too desirable.
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Image - A-Girl-Like-Grace-16-Raven-Symone-and-the-Sweet-Cherry ... | a girl like graceBoth affection Ms. Atwood’s brave eye on the constraints, amusing and literal, that accept shackled women through history. As the bitter political altitude continues to agitate in the United States, the Canadian writer’s two decades-old novels accept landed like abreast critiques: In “Alias Grace,” 19th-century issues of anti-immigrant sentiment, aborticide and chic warfare assume aback hot-button.
“ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ offers us a window into a accessible approaching aback women’s rights are eroded. ‘Alias Grace’ offers a attending at what it was like afore women had any rights,” said Ms. Polley. “To attending aback and advanced is actual important at this moment aback women’s rights are abundantly ambiguous and fragile.”
Over breakfast in a restaurant abreast her home in Toronto aftermost summer, Ms. Polley declared how over the aftermost two decades the appearance Grace never accomplished burrowing in her imagination. Her 2012 autobiographical meta-documentary “Stories We Tell” opens with a adduce from “Alias Grace,” apprehend by Ms. Polley’s father. (“When you are in the average of a story, it isn’t a adventure at all, but alone a confusion,” it began.) That film, about Ms. Polley’s analysis of a ancestors secret, confronted the unknowable, amphibian attributes of ancestors lore. Grace, in Ms. Atwood’s novel, is a shape-shifter, too, her answerability or chastity unfixed.
“To be a woman in that time, or any time, there are genitalia of your personality and responses to things that you’re accepted to suppress,” said Ms. Polley. “So what happens to all that activity and all that anger? What do you do with powerlessness? The abstraction of accepting added than one identity, the face you appearance to the apple and the face that’s abysmal within, captivated me.”
When the awning rights came up for grabs in 2012, Ms. Polley pounced. She took a six-hour affair with Ms. Atwood. “She accepted that the ambiguity mattered most, but ambiguity is catchy on film,” said Ms. Atwood. “Grace was bedevilled as an accent because she didn’t tell. We never knew, and she never told. She acted as one of those bare screens assimilate which everybody commenting projected.” Ms. Atwood accustomed of the filmmaker’s ambiguity skills, and Ms. Polley paid out of abridged for the rights.
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A Girl Like Grace Movie Review | a girl like graceBut the delays continued: Ms. Polley had a babyish — and again addition one. She wrote while her daughters napped, but was affected to cool the pages aback a blaze extinguisher fell on her arch at a association center, giving her a concussion. “My academician goes slower now, so maybe what I’m advancing up with as a biographer is richer,” said Ms. Polley. “Or maybe not. But I can’t multitask anymore, acknowledge God.”
At aboriginal she approved to acclimate it as a affection film, but not absent to lose the book’s body she absitively on a mini-series. And advancing from the D.I.Y. trenches of absolute film, Ms. Polley didn’t apprehend that for TV, she could accept enlisted added writers to advice with the scripts. Instead, she wrote all six episodes by herself and while accomplishing so, absitively not to direct. “I aloof couldn’t see it in my head,” she said. “There are scenes I wrote that I accept no abstraction how to shoot. I adulation this book, and I was not activity to see it busted up, and I anticipation I ability spiral it up.”
Ms. Polley approached a administrator she admired, Mary Harron, who was alive in TV (“Graceland,” “Constantine”). In film, Ms. Harron is accepted for aeon pieces, but not the corset kind, accepting directed blood-soaked band favorites like “I Attempt Andy Warhol” and “American Psycho.”
“No one abroad would’ve asked me to do this but Sarah Polley,” said Ms. Harron. “Both Sarah and I are absorbed in what is accurate and what is not true. I anticipate she admired that a lot of my films accept characters beyond with madness. And she knew I wouldn’t try to accomplish ‘Downton Abbey.’ I didn’t appetence to adorn but to absolutely appearance a brutal, ruthless, class-driven society.”
The CBC, Canada’s accessible broadcaster, came on lath immediately, but a accomplice was bare to hit the $25 actor (U.S.) budget. Netflix, the fast-growing alive account that is added attractive at co-productions to ammunition its clamorous appetence for aboriginal content, active on quickly.
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Entertainment Voice | a girl like grace“They came in with a absolutely bright eyes and a lot of passion, and 500 pages written,” said Elizabeth Bradley, carnality admiral of agreeable at Netflix.
Last fall, “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Alias Grace” were actuality attempt accompanying in and about the city. In November, at the automated Toronto beach that’s chaotic with blur studios, Ms. Gadon and Edward Holcroft, who plays the adolescent doctor aggravating to ascertain Grace’s memories, were built-in in the cartoon allowance of a Victorian manor, their “session” adjoining on flirtation. Rain began to bang the flat roof, interfering with complete recording. “We’re additionally beneath flight paths,” Ms. Polley sighed, sitting abreast the monitor.
Ms. Polley’s aboriginal feature, “Away from Her,” was an adjustment of a abbreviate adventure by Alice Munro, conceivably the alone Canadian columnist added acclaimed than Ms. Atwood. But Ms. Polley never met the antisocial Ms. Munro. In contrast, Ms. Atwood advised in on scripts and casting for “Alias Grace,” and spent hours touring the abundant sets with the assembly designer. She abnormally admired the “botulistic preserves” in Mason jars in the basement apartment area the bodies were found.
As “Alias Grace” was attempt through the acclamation of Admiral Trump, assertive of the show’s capacity acquired new resonance, decidedly aborticide (the absoluteness of actionable accretion is bluntly depicted) and clearing (Ms. Polley wrote Grace’s acrid bridge from Ireland with contempo casual crises in mind). Aback I batten to Ms. Atwood this month, the House of Representatives had aloof anesthetized a bill banning late-term abortions, and the Trump administering had confused to aggrandize the rights of administration to abjure women allowance advantage for contraception.
“We are at a moment in history aback some genitalia of North America are aggravating to about-face the alarm back, and if they appetence to about-face it back, what do they appetence to about-face it aback to?” Ms. Atwood said. “There’s a acumen the women’s movement absolutely started in the 19th century. If they do go back, they’ll end up with [a woman] dying on a blood-soaked mattress.”
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A Girl Like Grace (Widescreen) - Walmart.com | a girl like graceViewers in Canada, area “Alias Grace” began airing in backward September, accept responded. The ratings for the aboriginal adventure were the arch abatement admission for a CBC ball in the accomplished bristles years.
Ms. Atwood said she has “at atomic two more” books in development for TV. (“We will not allocution about them until they’re real.”) The cast ancillary of celebrity is added scrutiny, and alike the best woke brilliant is sometimes advised not woke enough. Ms. Atwood was afresh criticized in the Toronto account media for Nimby-ism afterwards abutting her neighbors in petitioning burghal admiral to alter affairs for an eight-story address development that, Ms. Atwood wrote in a letter, ability affect aloofness and copse aggregate forth the lot line. She was not surprised. “I’ve said to bodies over the years, ‘You’ve aloof had big success, get accessible for three awful abandoned claimed attacks.’ ”
Ms. Polley, too, has acquainted the bite of backlash. She hasn’t directed in bristles years or appeared in a blur aback 2010, allotment to absorb time with her accouchement and assignment selectively. But with so few changeable admiral in the marketplace, she’s acquainted that some appearance her dispatch aback as an act of betrayal. At a party, Ms. Polley mentioned to a changeable analyzer that she was parenting, not directing, and the woman fabricated a airsickness babble at her. “The best I fabricated advisedly is, I would like to be with my accouchement as abundant as possible. I anticipate it’s a achievement of feminism not a failure,” she said.
The ache for Ms. Polley’s acknowledgment now, fair or not, may additionally axis from her assurance in the accomplished with annoying amusing issues that abide unresolved. She’s announced out about aggressive sexism on blur sets, and adjoin adolescent acting (“We’ve alone adolescent activity everywhere in association except film. Kids shouldn’t be in any ambiance that’s for profit”). In the deathwatch of the Harvey Weinstein animal advance allegations, she wrote an op-ed in this paper. In it, Ms. Polley recollected that at age 19, as a adolescent actress, Mr. Weinstein offered her what he declared as a “very abutting relationship,” acquainted how such relationships had benefited added actresses. Ms. Polley absolved away.
“I got off absolutely easy,” she said. “There wasn’t a moment afore this one area anyone would accept cared about what those women had to say, area those women wouldn’t accept been ridiculed for advancing forward, area they wouldn’t accept been anticipation of as whiners or blatant or angry.”.
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A Girl Like Grace | The Boards | a girl like graceThen she alternate to Ms. Atwood’s words about a denigrated Victorian housemaid, maybe affected for murder, or maybe pushed to it. “There’s a band area Dr. Jordan says article like: ‘I admiration how abundant sublimated acerbity she charge accept agitated with her, this adolescent addled on every corner.’ And I wonder, too. I don’t aloof admiration about a calm assistant in the 1800s. I admiration about women in every distinct field, every distinct day.”
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