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Apr 12, 2019 · Anyone with a preconceived notion of Emily Dickinson as a painfully shy reclusive Victorian-era lady is likely to feel a shock when they actually read her work, when they dig into the 1,800 poems she left behind when she died.
In Madeleine Olnek’s “Wild Nights With Emily,” the life and work of Emily Dickinson are subject to a delightfully droll — even gay — reinterpretation.
Silly yet deceptively smart, Wild Nights with Emily approaches its oft-investigated subject from a unique -- and utterly entertaining -- vantage point. Read Critics Reviews
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- Madeleine Olnek
- PG-13
- Molly Shannon
Wild Nights With Emily is the film that Emily Dickinson deserves, true to her lively spirit and to her historically proven, but long denied, queerness. Like Dickinson's writing,...
Apr 10, 2019 · ‘Wild Nights with Emily’ Film Review: Molly Shannon Brilliantly Reimagines Emily Dickinson. Writer-director Madeline Olnek rescues Dickinson from biased history, painting the poet as a...
- 2 min
- April Wolfe
Oct 23, 2018 · The film is a wry comedy at times approaching absurdity, such as when the lovers race between their neighboring homes, clutching layer upon layer of petticoats and bloomers lest they be...
Mar 11, 2018 · ‘Wild Nights With Emily’ Review: Molly Shannon Is Emily Dickinson in the Best Lesbian Comedy in Years. Madeleine Olnek's new film reveals the lighter, gayer side of a poet who was neither...
