One of the year\u2019s most quietly devastating performances can be found in Terence Davies\u2019 immaculately rendered portrait of poet Emily Dickinson. That is, it\u2019s quiet until the moment Emily (played with a fierce, undeniable intelligence by Cynthia Nixon) releases the emotions she\u2019s kept pent up inside her. Cloistered as she is (she\u2019s introduced at a strict religious boarding school, and even when she contrives to be sent home, she very rarely goes out), the Emily of A Quiet Passion<\/i> is eager to make her mark on the world, if only the world were ready to accept her. (The literary establishment most definitely isn\u2019t.)<\/span><\/p>\n Unlike some artist biopics, which pay scant attention to the actual work that makes them worthy of the treatment, A Quiet Passion<\/i> is punctuated by examples of Dickinson\u2019s poetry, a wise move on Davies\u2019 part. The same goes for his casting of the supporting roles, with Keith Carradine in particular in good form as Emily\u2019s uptight father and Joanna Bacon as her infirm mother, whose social isolation prefigures hers. Since Emily\u2019s world is progressively constricted to the point where she only interacts with her own family, that\u2019s one way to make sure her lacerations cut\u00a0deep.<\/span><\/p>\n Availability: Amazon Prime, iTunes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the year\u2019s most quietly devastating performances can be found in Terence Davies\u2019 immaculately rendered portrait of poet Emily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":8595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-looking-back","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}