A Quiet Passion

Watch: A Quiet Passion

Unrated

1/11/20172h 5m

Premiere Release (US)

Overview:

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

Director:

Terence Davies

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$8,138,338.00

Revenue:

$1,864,266.00

Key words:

massachusetts
poet
biography
recluse
19th century
emily dickinson

Cast

Cynthia Nixon

~ as ~

Emily Dickinson

Jennifer Ehle

~ as ~

Vinnie Dickinson

Keith Carradine

~ as ~

Edward Dickinson

Emma Bell

~ as ~

Young Emily Dickinson

Sara Vertongen

~ as ~

Miss Lyon

Duncan Duff

~ as ~

Austin Dickinson

Jodhi May

~ as ~

Susan Gilbert

Joanna Bacon

~ as ~

Emily Norcross

Benjamin Wainwright

~ as ~

Young Austin Dickinson

Catherine Bailey

~ as ~

Vryling Buffum

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Reviews (1)

Reno
Written 8 year(s) ago
7
Being a biopic, it justifies! But not everybody thinks that way!

I don't know what did everybody expected from it, but I thought it was good. It is a biopic and you can't anticipate a film to alter for your comfort. Not all the films based on the real person are one hundred per cent exact depiction. Recreation is impossible, but getting somewhere close to it what this film did like many others. Because you won't able to cover thousands of hours of a person's life in just 120 minutes. The director did his part finely and so the actors.

Periodic flick means we expect fancy costumes. This film had started like one, but faded away quickly, once the story started to get serious. After graduating from the school, the young Emily Dickinson decides to write poetries and she succeeds too. But she's not a person of god as her family or the society she's living in. Then she meets another young woman like her. Soon everybody around her starts to get disappear as the phase of life moving on, so she loses all the company. How her rest of the life happens were revealed on the remaining part.

Despite both the versions of Emily were good, it also became the weakness of the film. They should have went for one actor with make- up option. I liked first half and the second half, but it looked two different films with two different actors. Setting in the 19th century, the struggles of women is what it highlighted. Most of the film took place in the Emily's house. Being a true story, it is worthy film. But not everybody would enjoy it. Because that's not how Emily Dickinson lived. I meant to get cheers from the today's audience for her film.

7/10