Film: "Wild Nights with Emily"
A hilarious and touching reexamination of the life and loves of poet Emily Dickinson.
In the mid-19th century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically, baking gingerbread and enjoying a passionate, lifelong affair with her friend and sister-in-law Susan … yes,this is the iconic American poet, popularly thought to have been a reclusive spinster. Beloved comic Molly Shannon leads in this humorous yet bold reappraisal of Dickinson, informed by her private letters.
Thwarted by male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously, Dickinson and her 1,775 poems ultimately attract the attention of an ambitious woman editor with her own shocking secrets.
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.
