Mark Kermode reviews A Quiet Passion
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2017
- Mark Kermode reviews A Quiet Passion. The story of poet Emily Dickinson ranging from her youth as a schoolgirl to her later years as a recluse.
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Loooved this movie, even if it'll be a tall order for most. Extremely poignant and engrossing look at an innerly self-destructive genius. Very true to Dickinson as a character study, beautifully filmed and acted, resonating themes of striving against conformism, finding one's identity, the turmoils of mortality, very slow and powerful movie.
YES!! So glad this is good!! Studying Emily Dickinson for uni exams and will see this for "research". (Also the "trembling with hope/sadness/something" comment is promising, bc her poetry kinda does that too)
Hey Simon - Cynthia Nixon was in 'Amadeus'. No plug for your favourite film?
It's wonderful that a independent filmmaker like Davies is able to flourish and make the films he wants too. But speaking from my experience of watching some of his films i'm usually left cold, they are very stilted and lack engagement. I will watch this with an open mind though.
Best film i've seent his year, excusing La la Land
in that clip of the movie, the lady in blue just reminds me like an "victorian Samantha Jones" of SITC. 😂😂😂
That scene is like Samantha and Miranda talking. 😂😂😂
I truly await this film...hope that it is worthy of Emily Dickinson !!!! Don't depend on superficial momentary high school/college mini-lectures to understand her. Read all of her poems (and a good biography or two). Visit her lovely hometown/house in Amherst, MA. -
Stop by her actual room/affects at Harvard's Houghton Library - Then you will begin to comprehend her ahead-of-her-time greatness and brilliance. We may never see another like her !
Bless you for this. Yes... she was and is a pearl. Unfortunately, even though the movie was beautiful, I sincerely feel that the director did not understand Emily at all.
"they can get ... with the program" yeah!
Seen 2 Davies films so far, very much not a fan (yet). Seen The Deep Blue Sea which I thought was trite and forgettable, and the other being the seemingly universally loved The Long Day Closes which had no effect on me at all, I was disconnected and disinterested almost the entire time. He's pumping out a lot of films like another Ter(r)ence as of late (also the one I actually love), so maybe I'll find something to like as his filmography grows and I keep digging, but so far, nadda.
He did not understand Dickinson's poetry. But it was a beautiful movie.
Nice video - I don't understand what Mayo's trying to say; isn't the whole point of being a critic to try to point ppl towards material they might not otherwise see? In any case, IMO Quiet Passion was the best movie of the decade - and I agree Davies follows the tradition of a Dreyer, or a Rembrandt - reminding us what cinema is for - RIP
"Bristlingly lively" hmmm. A lot of the scenes was just the poet venting her spleen on well meaning visitors. If you knew nothing about Dickinson then this film will do little to inform you. I was longing for more of her poems. Mr Kermode must have shares in the production from the way he goes on about it. Its a blessing that the director didnt get his mittens on the Bronte's!
Kermode loves anything by Davies, whether the films are any good or not, the fact Davies is making films now seems to be enough for Kermode.
paul harris A Quiet Passion is really, really great though
Angus Allen: it's really, really NOT though!
This is a truly awful film -- Davies really screwed this one up. Such a rich and mythological subject treated with the utmost banality, complete with entirely fictional characters; they did not exist! What's up with that?
'A Quiet Passion' is a bizarre film and probably Terence Davies's worst effort. During the first twenty minutes I was perplex by it, thinking 'is this what the filmmaker really wanted?', and then found through the next hour and forty, that it sadly was. In general, each scene is a tableau of such stilted dialogue and performance that it just made me shake my head with incredulity. It is without doubt trying to be intellectual and have intellectual wit, but it falls flat at every turn. It was as though Davies hates the poetry of Emily Dickinson and has made almost every effort to put off the curious viewer. He has certainly done the poet a huge disservice. The candle lit interior scenes do have a lovely softness of light, and a couple of the tableaus are actually quite beautiful, but across two hours of poetry recitation, accompanied by painfully clunky dramatisation, it is simply nowhere near good enough. There is an important gender equality message here, but it is so clunky told that only the most ardent of feminists could love it. 1/5
I found this movie somewhat tedious to watch. For the most part, the lines were uncomfortably and even stoically delivered in the manner that one would see in a high school drama production...basically regurgitating the lines in a robotic sort of way. I actually didn't think that Cynthia was THAT exceptional. For all of the build up of this movie, I expected more.
This film is the most dreary, dull thing I've ever watched. I wanted to tear my eyes out about 40 minutes in.
NickEntity totally agree. Yawnfest. I would have walked out, but my friend wanted to stay.
NickEntity one of the best films i've seen in a while!
Didn't care for it. I thought the movie was extremely stale - it reminded me of late period Dreyer; beautiful compositions and tracking shots, but stale, with lots of stilted acting and dialogue.
Like Paul Harris said, Mark is incapable of being objective or critical when it comes to Terence Davies!
Liked The Deep Blue Sea - liked parts of Sunset Song.
another boring indulgent ego fillled davies movie
sad
Maybe Tranformers is more you thing.
Incredibly, A Quiet Passion scored 92% on the tomato meter. I can't fathom how anyone, especially critics, could like it. The "clever" dialog of faux-witty aphorisms and zingers has nothing to do with how people actually talk. On top of that, the string of vignettes that substitute for an actual story feel mostly disconnected from each other and almost totally irrelevant to Dickenson's poetry (the only reason we care about her life). To sit through this movie is torturous. The extended death rattle of some of the characters is cinematic flatulence. Don't see it. If you don't care about Dickenson, then there is nothing here for you. If you do care about Dickenson, then this movie will make you spitting mad at the abuse her character takes from Terence Davies. Cynthia Nixon's voice and manner will become painfully annoying, like a boil upon your neck. Davies has made some good movies, but this is no House of Mirth.
originalhgc wow lol i dont think we were watching the same film!
Plus, they don't even portray Emily Dickinson how she realistically was as a person. They had ONE job
one of the worst films I have ever seen. It was made worse because it was trying so hard to be beautiful and emotional. Horrible.
The worst movie! Cynthia Dixon was awful!!!Wasted of my time watching this horrid movie!!!@