Renowned British filmmaker Terence Davies (House of Mirth, Sunset Song) tells the story of American poet Emily Dickinson, from her days as a schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist. "Opens a window into an era whose political and moral legacies are still with us, and illuminates, with a practiced portraitist’s sureness of touch, the mind of someone who lived completely in her time, knowing all the while that she would eventually escape it." - New York Times
"Illuminates, complicates and ultimately transcends the mystery of its subject’s confinement. The film’s pursuit of a higher form of artistic truth merges with Dickinson’s own." - L.A. Times
"The work of a master craftsman whose interest has always been the ways outer reality frames and shapes our inner landscapes. Shot in the era’s natural light — candles, kerosene lamps, daylight slanting into low-ceilinged rooms — this feels like the closest we may ever come to a movie actually filmed in the mid-1800s." - Boston Globe
"Cynthia Nixon is simply magnificent as Dickinson, finding the sharp wit and searching mind of a woman out of step with the codes and formalities of her time." - Rolling Stone
SYNOPSIS: 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. 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. Rated PG-13 (for "thematic elements, disturbing images and brief suggestive material"). 126 mins.
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