The U.S. rights to Cynthia Nixon‘s “A Quiet Passion” have been acquired by Music Box Films following the film’s North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Directed by Terence Davies, the film is about the famous 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson, who wrote almost 1800 poems, most of which were unpublished during her lifetime. “A Quiet Passion” had its international premiere at the 2016 Berlinale.
The cast also includes Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine and Duncan Duff. “A Quiet Passion” was produced by Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos of Hurricane Films (who had previously produced Davies’ “Sunset Song” and “Of Time and the City”) with Potemkino.