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Oct 23, 2017voisjoe1_0 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Warning! This film if for Terence Davies aficionados only. Christian Fundamentalists beware!The film, a somewhat fictional biography of American poet Emily Dickenson, is deeply depressing as it attempts to portray the life of a female genius in the time when American Christianity believed that white wealthy males should be dominant over all other groups of homo sapiens. And to add onto the white male dominance, Dickenson lived in an era in which medical science was helpless in relieving the severe pains of many chronic and often terminal illnesses. Davies combines the two facts in portraying the almost unbelievable severity of Dickenson's somewhat abbreviated life. It is not a Hollywood romanticized version of a difficult life.