Wild Nights with Emily
Year: 2018
Country:
United States
Run Time:
84 minutes
Perceived wisdom tells us Emily Dickinson was a recluse, a spinster who rarely left home. Mabel Todd, who helped publish (and alter) the posthumous volumes of her poetry, helped craft that image while profiting from being the poet’s “advocate.” But Dickinson’s poems and letters reveal a much different story. WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, with Molly Shannon as Dickinson, tells this tale in an unexpected and gleefully madcap manner as a hilariously droll costume drama. Never crossing into slapstick, this subversive and razor sharp romp explores the ways we shape life’s challenges that take us out of our comfort zones. Using copious quotes from Dickinson’s poems and letters, WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY details her lifelong affair with her sister-in-law, Susan. Playing with notions like lovers rubbing toes beneath the table, the real passion and pain of Dickinson’s life is never ignored. Instead, the passion becomes a bonfire the film dances and cavorts around with wicked originality and gloriously campy joy. Lit class was never this much fun. —C.R.
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Madeleine Olnek
Madeleine Olnek is a New York City-based playwright and filmmaker. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for her third feature film, WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, which premiered at SXSW 2018. Olnek graduated from NYU with a B.F.A. in Drama, where she trained in the acting conservatory program. She holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brown University, which she attended on a full merit-based scholarship. She has an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University, where she was awarded the prestigious William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship.
Filmography
Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011), The Foxy Merkins (2013), WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY (2018)
Producers
Casper Andreas, Anna Margarita Albelo, Max-Rifkind Barron, Madeleine Olnek
Screenwriting
Madeleine Olnek
Cinematography
Anna Stypko
Editing
Lee Eaton, Anthony Clemente
Principal Cast
Molly Shannon, Amy Seimetz, Susan Ziegler, Brett Gelman, Jackie Monahan
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