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A Quiet Passion is a 2016 British biographical film written and directed by Terence Davies about the life of American poet Emily Dickinson. The film stars Cynthia Nixon as the reclusive poet. It co-stars Emma Bell as young Dickinson, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, and Keith Carradine.
Apr 14, 2017 · A historian of Emily Dickinson's life explains the historical context for the new film A Quiet Passion in which Cynthia Nixon plays the poet.
A Quiet Passion: Directed by Terence Davies. With Emma Bell, Sara Vertongen, Rose Williams, Benjamin Wainwright. The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
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- Biography, Drama
- Terence Davies
- 2017-04-07
A Quiet Passion offers a finely detailed portrait of a life whose placid passage may not have been inherently cinematic, but is made more affecting by Cynthia Nixon's strong performance. Read...
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- Terence Davies
- PG-13
- Cynthia Nixon
Apr 13, 2017 · Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson in “A Quiet Passion,” directed by Terence Davies. Johan Voets/Music Box Films. New England in the mid-19th century was a literary hothouse, overgrown with wild...
- Terence Davies
(His 1995 film of John Kennedy Toole’s novel “The Neon Bible” was set in 1940s Georgia.) Working from his own original screenplay, “A Quiet Passion” treats the life and the work of the poet Emily Dickinson, whose vast body of work was mostly unpublished in her lifetime.
Apr 13, 2017 · A Quiet Passion is a film obsessed with mortality, eternity, and the passage of time. In the very first scene, Emily is forced into a public confrontation with the state of her immortal soul...
