A Quiet Passion (2016)

This is a movie that is not for everyone, just as its subject, Emily Dickenson and her poetry are also not for everyone. I think the story telling is both disjointed and at the same time probably pretty representative of Dickenson's life. A womanin the 19th century who had ambitions for herself needed either a special family who both got her and would support her, which Dickenson did not apparently have, or the resolve to go it alone, come hell or high water, whcih she very much appears to have had. So the story is told in fits and starts with some successes and a lot of adversity. At the core of the story telling is a clear love of the subject coming from those who participated, and it is streaming on Kanopy, so if you belong to a library you can have access to it.