A quiet passion (DVD) [videorecording] / director, Terence Davies.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: MBFHE124 | Music Box FilmsPublisher: [Chicago, Illinois] : Music Box Films, [2017]Edition: Widescreen [edition]Description: 1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- PN1997.2 .Q54 2017
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MOVIE | Meaford Public Library Movie | DVD Quiet (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 15048 |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016.
Special features: Behind the scenes featurette ; Q&A with Terence Davies and Cynthia Nixon ; Cynthia Nixon interview ; Emily Dickinson poems, recited ; theatrical trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by Michael Koresky.
Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine, Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey.
The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, disturbing images and brief suggestive material.
DVD.
Special features: Behind the scenes featurette ; Q&A with Terence Davies and Cynthia Nixon ; Cynthia Nixon interview ; Emily Dickinson poems, recited ; theatrical trailer ; booklet featuring an essay by Michael Koresky.
Patron comment on 10/15/2017
This excellent film about poet Emily Dickinson warrants a five-star rating. Cynthia Nixon’s performance is the stuff of best-actress Oscars. Nevertheless, that said, I think it was unnecessarily gloomy in parts. The guided tour at Emily Dickinson museum in her former home in Amherst, MA, tells visitors a fair bit about her -- some brighter elements of her life that are perhaps not well represented in the film. For example, she was a first-class cook, known around Amherst for her gingerbread which she sometimes lowered from her window to children. She took great delight in many of the simple things in life, like tending her houseplants, as is reflected in her poetry. The film’s director may have done well to model the ending from John Huston’s film “Moulin Rouge”, a fine biopic about another nineteenth-century creative genius, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec who like Miss Dickinson died quite young. Its ending is quite special and upbeat, recognizing the legacy of Lautrec’s genius. I think Miss Dickinson's memory deserves the same. Let’s not forget this is this woman who wrote, “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else”.