While Ken Loach is the best-known British auteur when it comes to portraying working-class lives, don’t forget this moving masterwork by Terence Davies. Drawing on his upbringing and paced to the rhythms of 1940s popular songs, Davies’ first feature length drama is a family story flush with passion.
Beloved English director Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes, A Quiet Passion) made a triumphant return to dramatic filmmaking after a decade away with this glowing, gorgeous melodrama impeccably acted and suffused with a melancholy romanticism that reminds us of Wong Kar-wai. It was worth the wait!
Terence Davies’s stylish and refined biopic of the reclusive American poet captures the stirrings of a passion that is far from quiet. Featuring an extraordinary performance from Cynthia Nixon, the great British director depicts the life of Emily Dickinson with remarkable wit and grace.
