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WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, CANADA
Release date : Apr 12, 2019
 
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Completed - ENGLISH - Romance, Historical, Comedy - 84 minutes

Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Madeleine OLNEK
Cast : Molly SHANNON, Brett GELMAN, Amy SEIMETZ, Susan ZIEGLER

Synopsis

In the mid-19th century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically, baking gingerbread, and enjoying a passionate, lifelong romantic relationship with another woman, her friend and sister-in-law Susan...yes this is the iconic American poet, popularly thought to have been a recluse. Beloved comic Molly Shannon leads in this humorous yet bold reappraisal of Dickinson, informed by her private letters. While seeking publication of some of the 1,775 poems written during her lifetime, Emily (Shannon) finds herself facing a troupe of male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also sees Emily as a convenient cover for her own role in buttoned-up Amherst's most bizarre love triangle. A timely critique of how women's history is rewritten, WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY remains vibrant, irreverent and tender--a perhaps closer depiction of Emily Dickinson's real life than anything seen before.

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Country(ies) : USA

CANADA Apr 12, 2019 FILMS WE LIKE
GERMANY Apr 12, 2019 SALZGEBER & CO.
USA Apr 12, 2019 GREENWICH ENTER

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Festivals and Awards

SXSW 2018
Edinburgh 2018
Seattle 2018


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