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With a title like "Talking Women," the fourth feature from fearless actress-turned-director Sarah Polley makes it clear that it will be one of those rare films that can pass the Bechdel Test. That barometer poses three seemingly easy criteria to meet: (1) The film must have at least two women (2) talking to each other (3) about something other than a man. It's amazing how many movies flop. Even Polley's film, which consists of women talking for most of its 97 minutes, is a tricky exception, since most of the conversation, an urgent meeting between the wives, mothers and daughters of an ultra-conservative religious colony, refers to men. But even then, there's no denying that "Talking Women" isn't like any movie you've seen before, which is exactly what you'd want from the director of 2012's surprisingly personal and groundbreaking meta-documentary "Stories We Tell." Another decade. Later, Polley returns with another audacious th...