'A Quiet Passion' Q&A | Terence Davies, Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle | NYFF54

Director Terence Davies and actors Cynthia Nixon and Jennifer Ehle discuss their film 'A Quiet Passion' following a screening at the 54th New York Film Festival, where it played as a 'Film Comment Presents' screening in the Special Events section.
Swiftly following his glorious Sunset Song, the great British director Terence Davies turns his attention to 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson and ends up with perhaps an even greater triumph. A revelatory Cynthia Nixon embodies Dickinson with a titanic intelligence always threatening to burst forth from behind a polite facade, while Davies creates a formally audacious rendering of her life, from teenage skepticism to lonely death, using her poems (and a touch of Charles Ives) as soundtrack accompaniment. Both sides of Davies’s enormous talent-his witty, Wildean sense of humor and his frightening vision of life’s grim realities-are on full display in this consuming depiction of a creative inner world. A Music Box Films release.
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[@beatborter7919]

And where is Jennifer Ehle, who is so marvellous in this film...???

[@jamesfranco5939]

Terence is painfully underrated

[@r.antoniogueudinot2234]

Lovely film. As to be expected from Mr. Davies. The entire cast was wonderful, but Cynthia Nixon was absolutely stunning. As was Jennifer Ehle...who is NOT on the stage in this Q&A. That is her co-star, Catherine Bailey. :)

[@djmotise]

Change the title. You're wrong. It's not Jennifer Ehle. False advertising..

[@djmotise]

My lord, that interviewer says "um" so many times.

[@novaguy1968]

Inexperienced ones.

[@1gaia]

Terence Davies is adorable, and boy can he make some bleak cinema - almost pungent with despair.

[@psusanwestlake5510]

Not sure these line up interviews work. May just be the interviewer.

[@teeniebeenie8774]

how can he get funding still?
none of his flix sell tix....
odd