![]() ![]() It’s all her choice, as Davies is keen to emphasise, but hers is not a happy life. Dickinson is a loner, who never leaves her family homestead, never marries, and refuses to engage in society. “You only enjoy it after you’ve gone home.”ĭavies is uninterested, however, in straightforward comedy of manners, and while his stagy script skewers 19th-century New England high society with genuinely side-splittable moments, there is an emotional and melancholic undercurrent. ![]() “Going to church is like going to Boston,” remarks Buffam at one point. ![]() Striking up a friendship with teacher Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), there’s the kind of sly wit and “delightful banter” (as one character puts it) that made Love & Friendship such a joy. ![]() A film which aims to be as dense and emotionally profound as the poems by which it is inspired.Īfter a short time spent in Dickinson’s youth (and an unlikely but effective use of age-accelerating CGI), we switch to the poet in middle-age, offering Sex And The City’s Cynthia Nixon the opportunity for a superb soul-baring performance of a lifetime. ![]()
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