Emily dickinson movie 2021

2016 British film

A Quiet Passion is a 2016 British biographical film written and directed by Terence Davies about the life of AmericanpoetEmily Dickinson. The film stars Cynthia Nixon as the reclusive poet.

It co-stars Emma Bell as young Dickinson, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, and Keith Carradine. The film premiered at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016 and was released in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2017.

It won the Grand Prix at Film Fest Gent in 2016.

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Plot

The film follows American poet Emily Dickinson from her early years as a student to her later years.

Emily’s upbringing in Massachusetts’ Puritan/Congregational world is evident from the start, when she stands up to a Mount Holyoake Female Seminary school mistress (Miss Mary Lyon).

Her family (Father, brother Austin, sister Vinnie) take her home to Amherst.

Subsequently, while she is enraptured at the opera, her father and aunt express displeasure at a woman singing a