A Quiet Passion

xx HOMMAGE TO EMILY DICKINSON

Great Britain/USA / 2016 / 125'
Film 

Who was Emily Dickinson? What kind
of a person lurked behind the poet who
spent most of her life on her parents’ estate
in Amherst, Massachusetts? This mansion
provides the setting for a film that portrays
an unconventional woman about whose life
very little is known. Born in 1830, Dickinson
is considered to be a gifted child, but an
emotional trauma forces her to give up
her studies. The introverted young woman
withdraws from society and writes poetry. In
spite of her cloistered existence she takes her
readers on a journey into the wider world.
Terence Davies imagines her biography
and explores how Emily Dickinson’s
exceptional poems could come into being. The
camera glides delicately into a life in which
poetry takes up more and more space. Emily
Dickinson communicates with the outside
world via letters. In her correspondence
with her siblings and the clergyman Charles
Wadsworth she exchanges philosophical and
everyday observations. To her, Wadsworth’s
move to San Francisco is a tragedy. Davies’
biopic also describes a talented woman’s
lonely and desperate struggle for recognition
in a world dominated by men.

In English with slovenian subtitles. Discussion about Emiliy Dickinson's work after the film.

Tickets: € 5,30 / € 3,80

Organization: City of Women in collaboration with Kinodvor.