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Movies you may have missed: A Quiet Passion

A Quiet Passion Review by Josh Cabrita Andre Bazin argued that photography fulfills the same desire that led the ancient Egyptians to embalm their pharaohs. That word, ‘embalm,’ and the role photography can play in preserving the dead, is particularly relevant in A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies’ biopic on the nineteenth-century American poet, Emily Dickinson. Photography, a recent invention of the time, appears at three critical moments of change and intersects between personal and cultural history, nineteenth-century values and how modern viewers may perceive Dickinson. Davies sees the poet as a proto-feminist living under stiff patriarchy and a quasi-existentialist at…

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