A Quiet Passion

October. 07,2016      
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The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

Cynthia Nixon as  Emily Dickinson
Jennifer Ehle as  Vinnie Dickinson
Keith Carradine as  Edward Dickinson
Emma Bell as  Young Emily Dickinson
Sara Vertongen as  Miss Lyon
Duncan Duff as  Austin Dickinson
Jodhi May as  Susan Gilbert
Joanna Bacon as  Emily Norcross
Benjamin Wainwright as  Young Austin Dickinson
Catherine Bailey as  Vryling Buffum

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ManiakJiggy
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This is How Movies Should Be Made

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Dotsthavesp
2016/10/08

I wanted to but couldn't!

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Kinley
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This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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Curt
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jamesbigham
2016/10/11

This movie is way to slow, and does not contain enough substance for a two hour film. The opera scene was way to long without enough script to justify it being there at all. The actor simply say their lines with little or no emotion, and there is really no point, they just walk around the garden or the camera pans the room while nobody talks. I only made it through the first 40 minutes before being bored to tears so I cant fully judge this movie. however; from what I DID see I would never recommend this film.

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Andres-Camara
2016/10/12

It is a movie that has all the points to be a good movie, however, does not become a good movie, because none of those points gets to be well finished. It is also a film, too arrogant, that uses too many fancy phrases which makes me leave the film. I do not think that to look like an intellectual, you have to use that language.The tempo of the movie is too slow. It was not necessary and causes the viewer to be bored. He tries to make a poetic and adult film and abuses that time too many times.There is a moment when he takes the pictures, which is very good. It is a way to raise the aging of the family, but equally, to have made a photo would have been enough, it is not necessary to take photos of all, since you have already told and you are sleeping to the viewer.Cynthia Nixon, plays a formidable role, gets you to believe everything that happens to her, even illness and that is very difficult. The bad thing and I imagine that it will be, because its real personage was like this, is that being a woman so feminist that it looked for the freedom in his life and the equality with the men, thing of admiring, I do not understand why it was constantly like the others lived their life. As the movie progresses, I get worse and worse and that at first, I was completely in agreement with her. The other actors are formidable too, is the strength of this film. Even Keith Carradine and that's hard to believe in the wig they have put.The make-up and the costumes are very good except the father, who gets me much of the film.The constant voice-over of the poems is something else that I do not like at all. They make the movie slower and I do not think they are necessary.The photograph, which is almost always impressive, I think is very confused, I explain, I think this film is extremely sad, other than the director can make it cold for the viewer or at least distant and deserved a sad and cold picture and however do not marvel with a warm and friendly photograph.The manager, I think he is wrong in everything. The planes are ugly, they are all badly composed, the camera movements are empty. It seems that the actors went to shoot alone because it is a succession of close-ups, as if they were alone and that gets me a lot of the film. In addition he is wrong in the tempo and the length of the film that is too long.Of course the final sequence, I think is left, we have already learned what has happened. And above it has a whitish and warm photograph, at that moment.

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sndyskltchr
2016/10/13

Worst movie I have seen in a long time. I thought it was poorly acted and very tedious. Although it may seem to be an accurate portrayal of Emily Dickinson, for me that is it's only positive point. I did not finish the movie because I found it to arduous a task to endure any longer.

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patrick-ohana
2016/10/14

I'm still morose from this masterpiece when writing this review. I'll start with the excellent parts and then proceed to the outstanding ones. I can't imagine better acting than the ensemble portrayals depicted in this gem, and especially that of Cynthia Nixon, who should and will receive several awards for giving us dear Emily Dickinson, dearest poet and individual. The writing (screenplay) and directing by Terence Davies, and everything else that constitutes a movie, are superb, and powerful. It's Emily Dickinson in all her glory. What an unusual and marvelous individual! Having read and studied a few of her poems at college was a blessing, but in disguise given all that I further learned about her. Life is cruel and unbearable would be an utter understatement. I'll let you revel in Emily: one of the few most beautiful names to pronounce :(

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