A Quiet Passion: A film about the life of Emily Dickinson directed by Terence Davies

Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies (House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea) exquisitely evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close-knit family along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and transcended in her poetry. This advance showing will feature a post-screening conversation with director Terence Davies.

Terence Davies, Director and Writer, A Quiet Passion, is an English screenwriter and film director. He is the sole screenwriter of all his films, and his films are often at least partially autobiographical. After the success of his short- to medium-length film series The Terence Davies Trilogy, Terence wrote and directed his critical acclaimed Distant Voices, Still Lives, which was voted the third greatest British film of all time in a 2011 Time Out magazine poll. After finding further success with The Long Day Closes and Neon Bible, in 2000 Terence wrote and directed The House of Mirth, based on Edith Wharton’s novel of the same name. Of Time and the City in 2008 saw Terence return to his native Liverpool, and the film premiered out of competition at the 2008 Cannes film festival. Continuing his partnership with producers Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter from Of Time and The City, 2015 saw the release of Sunset Song, based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel of the same name, whilst 2016 will see the much-awaited release of A Quiet Passion, a biopic on the life of Emily Dickinson. As one of the most respected British Film makers, Terence became a Fellow of the British Film Institute in 2007. 

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