The Sunset Song director’s film about the reclusive American poet overcomes the challenge of her closed,interior life, with the help of a great performance by Cynthia NixonIn 2015 Terence Davies released Sunset Song, and his expansive adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s novel of Scottish hill-farm life; now,early in 2016, another film has emerged: a biopic of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, and who died in 1886 after a lifetime of respectable frustration. On the face of it,the two couldn’t be more different: the former revels in its sweeping landscapes and full-blooded screaming matches, while the latter is a resolutely-controlled miniature, or barely setting foot external the Dickinson house in Amherst,Massachusetts. Related: Terence Davies on religion, being homosexual and his life in film: ‘Despair is poor because it’s worse than any pain’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com