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A Quiet Passion (2016)

Drama | 125 minutes
3,29 46 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 125 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / Belgium

Directed by: Terence Davies

Stars: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine

IMDb score: 6,4 (6.641)

Releasedate: 7 October 2016

A Quiet Passion plot

A Quiet Passion tells the story of America's foremost poet, Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon). From her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years when she lives a reclusive life as an unrecognized artist. After her death, she left the world with a huge load of emotional and powerful literature, which unfortunately was only discovered after her death.

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Ferdydurke

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A vision. The silhouette of a man in the doorway; the camera follows him vertically from above, as he climbs the stairs; a spoken poem; a song of longing; a woman in her room between despair and resignation, as the door to her room slowly closes.

One strong sequence, one, in which perhaps 'a quiet passion' is truly depicted, in a rice pudding mountain of rehearsed sentences, which must pass for dialogues. As if we are watching a play from the fifties, with all that imposed wit. The Dickinsons apparently knew how to make it clear to each other in eloquent and crystal-clear language what they thought of each other and of the state of the world, and how they felt about it.

Davies focuses on – and ticks off a few points from – Dickinson's not very interesting biography, in particular her struggle with the limitations imposed on her as a woman and as a poet in a world dominated by men and a leaden religion, her illness, and nails her poems, spoken in voice-over, to everyday domestic scenes and family troubles, which seems to deprive that poetry of a broader expressive power.

We hear her sing 'Because I could not stop for Death' under footage of her funeral... it won't be.

Yet that death is a relief, because at that moment we know that there will also be an end to this film, which has been dragging itself laboriously towards that grave for its entire running time, without ever really coming to life.

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Filmkriebel

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Stylish dullness. I think a prize at Filmfest Gent is too much of an honour for this wooden biographical drama full of high-flown intellectual dialogues and quotes in which the smart ladies are almost shocked that they still understand each other. You really can't believe that people talked to each other like that. Filmfest Gent prize will probably be for commercial reasons again, because it was filmed in Ghent and the technical crew consisted of half Flemish people. Certainly not because this is a masterpiece.

This is a high-threshold film for an elite circle of freaks of (American) literature. A missed opportunity to present Emily Dickinson in a more light-hearted way to a wider audience. Now I got the portrait of a highly unpleasant, contrary woman who had a high opinion of herself (at least when you see her acting towards others), but was actually completely out of touch with the world. She talks a lot about "the world" but has never been outside Amherst her entire life. And then she wants to act like a know-it-all towards everyone...

She is portrayed as a fiery feminist who defends the equality of women and men to the point of clashing with her own family . What must be particularly remarkable about her is that her literary work only received the necessary recognition long after her death.

Now I don't have much to do with poetry: it doesn't excite me and it's not in my nature, so I wonder what she really meant with all these beautiful and unfathomable words... After having seen Sunset Song (3.5*) and The Deep Blue Sea (3.5*), I was disappointed with this film by Davies.

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mrklm

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The life story of Emily Dickinson (played by Emma Bella as a child and Cynthia Nixon as an adult), considered, along with Walt Whitman, the most important nineteenth-century American poet, although only 10 of her 1,800 poems are known to have been published during her lifetime. Her father [Keith Carradine] was a prominent lawyer and politician, her mother [Joanna Bacon] a simple, loyal wife and housewife, and her upbringing was distant and strict. Emily has strong bonds with her sister Lavine [Jennifer Ehle] and her brother Austin [Duncan Duff], and her friendship with the intelligent and quick-witted Vryling Buffam [Catherina Bailey] inspires her to follow a path in life that deviates from convention. The screenplay is full of sharp dialogue and amusing wit, but Davies's weighty direction lets Bailey down. The second half is somewhat better, although the pace remains on the slow side.

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