A Quiet Passion's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
Given its themes and the tragic circumstances of Dickinson's life, "Passion" is a refreshingly humorous work. Its firecracker dialogue is invigorating; the assured, measured compositions are equally compelling. And in its sensitivity to intersecting conflicts related to womanhood and class, it is quietly masterful.
Cinemanía
Simple and tight, cruel and impartial: the best biopic of Emily Dickson seems his poetry.
The Guardian
It is Davies? ability to invest even the most apparently-humdrum moments with some form of intense radiance that sustains his film.
Fotogramas
Davies weaves his poetry in the film in a natural way, counterpoint of lived experience, and handles like no ellipses to reveal the nick of time and society in this brilliant woman of mixed emotions.
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite a warmly interacting cast that includes Jennifer Ehle as Emily?s sister and Keith Carradine as her lion-maned, lionized father, and a valiant effort on the part of Nixon and Davies to externalize the poet?s inner demons in emotional, high-tension scenes, the film can?t escape an underlying static quality that extinguishes the flame before it can get burning.
The Playlist
It's an overwrought, stagey muddle that suggests that Davies, ever a-quiver on the extreme high end of the sensitivity meter anyway, has quivered right off it and plunged into the depths of bathos.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote