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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.
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| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Tara ThorneThe dependably astonishing Cynthia Nixon is Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, the latest in Terence Davies' exquisitely made string of costume dramas. |
| Culture TripGraham FullerWhereas that masterpiece memorialized moments in the filmmaker's upbringing, A Quiet Passion memorializes invented moments in Emily Dickinson's long day's journey into night and makes them no less indelible. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikDavies has crafted a literate and probing biography. |
| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyIt is grounded, and made most exemplary, by Cynthia Nixon’s performance. Every actor in this movie is wonderful. But Nixon’s precision in portraying every particular mood of Emily — for each individual scene calls for absolute specificity — is simply spectacular. |
| TheWrapDan CallahanThe degree of difficulty here is steep, and Davies has not been entirely successful in making Dickinson’s milieu come to full and convincing life. |
| Irish IndependentPaul WhitingtonNixon's Dickinson is simultaneously fearless and brittle, and her superb performance helps vivify a film that is, by necessity, housebound. |
| FlavorwireJason BaileyThis contrast between inner life and outer claustrophobia seeps through each frame of A Quiet Passion, which manages to both grasp at the essence of this strange poet while also allowing space for the mystery of her genius to remain a mystery. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabIn its depiction of physical pain, the film rekindles memories both of Bergman's Cries And Whispers and of the death scene in Davies's own Distant Voices, Still Lives. |
| Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)John BeifussThe film employs technology undreamed of in Dickinson's time to evoke a poetic, transcendent sensation: 'The Carriage held but just Ourselves -- And Immortality.' |
| Washington PostStephanie MerryDavies is a master of the slow build, lyrically evoking the dreaminess and gravity of his subject and her verse. |