Wild Nights with Emily
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| Original title | Wild Nights with Emily |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 84 minutes |
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| Director | Madeleine Olnek |
| script | Madeleine Olnek |
| production |
Anna Margarita Albelo , Casper Andreas , Madeleine Olnek, Max Rifkind-Barron |
| camera | Anna Stypko |
| cut | Tony Clemente Jr., Lee Eaton |
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Wild Nights with Emily is a 2018 American biography by Madeleine Olnek about the American poet Emily Dickinson .
action
The poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) led a secluded life. She has secretly had a love affair with her childhood friend Susan Gilbert for decades. Susan marries Emily's brother Austin so that she can continue to be close to Emily without arousing suspicion. In her poems, however, Emily is open about her feelings for Susan. After Emily's death, the publisher Mabel, who is having an affair with Austin, sees to it that the poems published posthumously are manipulated and that Emily's love letters for Susan are redirected to men.
criticism
Jude Dry calls the film on Indie Wire "the best lesbian comedy in years". In the Variety Amy writes Nicholson, the film ask the way out how history is recorded. Moira Macdonald calls Wild Nights with Emily a "quick, funny movie" in the Seattle Times .
publication
The film premiered on March 11, 2018 at the South by Southwest Film Festival . Since then it has screened at the Seattle International Film Festival , the Edinburgh International Film Festival and the San Diego International Film Festival, among others . Wild Nights with Emily celebrated its German premiere on October 21, 2018 at the film festival homochrom . The film was shown in August 2019 at the queer film festival in Berlin , Munich and Stuttgart .
Web links
- Wild Nights with Emily in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jude Dry: 'Wild Nights With Emily' Review: Molly Shannon Is Emily Dickinson in the Best Lesbian Comedy in Years, March 11, 2018, accessed August 26, 2019
- ↑ Amy Nicholson: SXSW Film Review: 'Wild Nights With Emily' on variety.com from March 15, 2019 (English), accessed on August 26, 2019
- ↑ Moira Macdonald: 'Wild Nights with Emily' review: A different, funny take on Emily Dickinson, with something important to say from April 17, 2018 (English), accessed on August 26, 2019