A Quiet Passion trailer: Cynthia Nixon in Terence Davies' biopic of poet Emily Dickinson

Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon plays the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson in the new film from British director Terence Davies, of Sunset Song and House of Mirth renown. Dickinson, who lived almost all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts, only published a handful of poems herself; she only became known as a major writer after her death in 1886, when her sister found hundreds of her poems.

•A Quiet Passion is released on 7 April in the UK.

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