Terence Davies

Film Review: “A Quiet Passion” — A Personal View of Emily Dickinson

Cynthia Nixon is a great Emily Dickinson, so deeply angry, so heartbreaking in her fool’s life of stoic suffering.

Director Terence Davies read four biographies of Emily Dickinson; the details of her life he remembered became the basis for his screenplay.

I wanted to like Sunset Song, steeped as it is in Scottish history and scenery.

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