The drama films “A Quiet Passion” and “Land of Mine” will be opening at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center June 2.
In “A Quiet Passion, ” Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson. Nixon personifies the wit, intellectual independence and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death. Acclaimed British director Terence Davies evokes Dickinson’s deep attachment to her close-knit family, along with the manners, mores and spiritual convictions of her time that she struggled with and transcended in her poetry.
This film is rated PG-13 for thematic elements, disturbing images and brief suggestive material. “A Quiet Passion” will be playing through June 15.
Inspired by real events, “Land of Mine” exposes the untold story of one tragic moment in post-war history. The Geneva Convention of 1929 forbids forcing prisoners of war to carry out hard labor or dangerous work. However, there is evidence that British and Danish commands deliberately changed the wording of the text from “prisoners of war” to “voluntarily surrendered enemy personnel” in order to sidestep the rules of the convention.
In the film, World War II comes to an end and a group of German prisoners of war - boys rather than men - are captured by the Danish army and forced to engage in a deadly task: to defuse and clear land mines from the Danish coastline. With little or no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over.
“Land of Mine” is rated R for violence, some grisly images and language. The film will be showing through June 8.
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