From Terence Davies, praised as “Britain’s greatest living director” (The Evening Standard), comes the story of the reclusive Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest American poets of the 19th century. Davies captures Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon in a subtly triumphant performance) in all her complexity: joyous and despairing, trapped by her intense shyness yet delighted to be in the company of her close-knit family, of her time, yet rebelling against the social and religious restrictions of the 1800s.
With Nixon reading many of Dickinson’s incredible poems, and written and directed by Davies with his usual eye for the most minute details of family life (and capturing a surprising amount of humor in her day-to-day existence), A Quiet Passion perfectly captures the artist as never before, in cinema or literature. “An absolute drop-dead masterwork.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Director’s Biography
Terence Davies was born in 1945 and educated at Catholic Primary and Secondary schools in Liverpool followed by work in accounting and bookkeeping. Abandoning this work, he turned to theater and then film, studying at the National Television and Film School. Sunset Song screened at MSPIFF 2016.
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