Release dates
July 11, 2017
95 months agoVOD / Blu-ray / DVD
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A Quiet Passion release date
The movie A Quiet Passion is already released on Cinema, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 12 reviews, A Quiet Passion gets an average review score of 79
The sole authenticated photograph of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) was taken when she was sixteen years old: The daguerreotype, revealing a slight young woman with a searching gaze and the slightest hint of a smile as she holds a floral spray on her lap, stands as one of the most famous portraits of an American writer.
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“A Quiet Passion,” his latest film, goes back further in time than any of his past pictures, to the middle of the 19th century, and returns him to America, a place he has now visited three times in his filmography.
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The great theme of Dickinson’s life, Davies argues, is finding solace — not in religion, but in art, and A Quiet Passion itself can boast such moments of quiet catharsis.
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Mr. Davies, whose work often blends public history and private memory, possesses a poetic sensibility perfectly suited to his subject and a deep, idiosyncratic intuition about what might have made her tick.
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A Quiet Passion is the witty, morbid biopic Emily Dickinson deserves.
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Director Terence Davies dodges biopic cliches in his subversive, sensitive portrait of the great American poet.
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A Quiet Passion's accomplishment is in fleshing out the stark context behind Emily Dickinson's ethereal words.
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The Sunset Song director’s film about the reclusive American poet overcomes the challenge of her closed, interior life, with the help of a great performance by Cynthia Nixon.
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In 19th century Massachusetts, a young Emily Dickinson (Emma Bell) struggles to be taken seriously as a poet. Later in life, Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) enjoys the company of her family and confidantes – but lives a reclusive life as her health declines.
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Terence Davies’s biopic on Emily Dickinson offers visual rapture, while the dialogue tends to trip up the talented ensemble cast.
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Cynthia Nixon plays iconic poet Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies’ biopic.
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Emily Dickinson's poetry trumps Terence Davies' scripting in this heavily mannered, strangely semi-comic biopic.
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