A Quiet Passion

2017 • 125 minutes

About this movie

Cynthia Nixon gives a career-best, tour-de-force performance as the legendary 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion. Born into privilege in 1830, Dickinson spent most of her life on her parents' estate in Amherst, Massachusetts. In her youth, the introverted Emily is depicted as a fiercely intelligent young woman who exchanges forthright opinions on life, art and patriarchal society. She becomes more reclusive as the years pass, consumed by poetry, but the lack of recognition and respect for her work stokes ever more vociferous dissention. 2016 A Quiet Passion Ltd/Hurricane Films.

Ratings and reviews

This was a great film that was well acted and enjoyable to watch. The story is interesting. I would have appreciated a little more insight into the conflict resulting from choices made by the central characters.

Heartwrenching. A masterpiece.