screwball comedy heroine? Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion liberates Dickinson from dusty history, where the poet is sharp-tongued, quick-witted and suffers no ...
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The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to ... The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a ...
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Cynthia Nixon stars as the legendary poet Emily Dickinson in this luminous biopic from director ...
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 ...
Emily publishes a scant poem or two in a local journal run by a friend of her fathers. There are suitors and marriages—for others. Emily is too ...
By now Emily is ill and in pain, but she's also carried on fighting against the constraints of her sex while others have fallen by the wayside.
In A QUIET PASSION, Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson ...
Countless novels, biographies, songs, dramatic works, and even museum exhibitions have tried to guess the source of her talent, her wild originality, her ...
GOOD POINTS · kudos for attempting to show the life of a non-pretty woman · no intrusive music throughout · good costume/hairstyles except.
Who are you?” Far from a conventional biopic, Davies's marvelous film about the life and death of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) takes great care never to ...