New England, 19th century. Amherst, Massachusetts, where the poet Emily Dickinson wrote in seclusion in her childhood home. It is with discretion that the poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) lived and wrote here in the 19th century.
Passionate about poetry, Emily wrote day and night in the hope of being published.
The years passed, and Emily continued her quest for poetic essence.
Only a few of her poems — about a dozen out of hundreds — were published during her lifetime.
Independent and resistant to social conventions, she no longer hesitated to oppose anyone who tried to dictate her behavior.
A mysterious figure who became mythical, Emily Dickinson is considered one of the greatest American poets.
One may never have read a line of Emily Dickinson and still find great pleasure in watching the film by Terence Davies. And still experience sorrow through the melodramas of the life of a young New England woman in the 19th century, which is far from a fairy tale.
Emily’s room, on the second floor, is where her singular imagination secretly settled, the closed space where, especially during the years 1858-1865, her passionate poetic work was developed, haunted by faith and doubt, hope, and renunciation, which she bequeathed to the world.
Terence Davies is one of the few today who portrays women as equals: victims of the love they inspire or feel, or of a society that never tolerates the independence they manifest.
Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) is dear to him because she is a silent rebel, exiled in a world that prefers appearances to the truth of intelligence and talent.
Independent and resistant to social conventions, she no longer hesitated to oppose anyone who tried to dictate her behavior.
On the modest stone marking her grave, it simply reads: “Called back.”
