A Quiet Passion opens Friday, May 19

Cynthia Nixon delivers a revelatory performance as the great poet Emily Dickinson in this spellbinding new film from Terence Davies (The Long Day Closes). A Quiet Passion carefully recreates 19th-century Massachusetts — its aesthetics, its politics, its social conventions — and then boldly explores how Dickinson existed in and responded to that place. In doing so, this engrossing, moving and unorthodox film illuminates her genius.