Bright Star
Bright Star

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- 69/100 based on 28,256 votes
  • Released: 2009
  • Runtime: 119 mins
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  • Studio: New South Wales Film & Television Office
  • Genres: Romance - Drama

It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house, the Dilkes family the other. Through association with the Dilkes, the fatherless Brawne family knows Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown and the Brawne's eldest daughter, Fanny, don't like each other. She thinks him arrogant and rude; he feels that she's a pretentious flirt, knowing only how to sew (admittedly well as she makes all her own fashionable clothes), and voicing opinions on... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Bright Star:

Abbie Cornish
Ben Whishaw
Paul Schneider
Kerry Fox
Edie Martin
Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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It's 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Poet Charles Brown lives in one half of a house, the Dilkes family the other. Through association with the Dilkes, the fatherless Brawne family knows Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown and the Brawne's eldest daughter, Fanny, don't like each other. She thinks him arrogant and rude; he feels that she's a pretentious flirt, knowing only how to sew (admittedly well as she makes all her own fashionable clothes), and voicing opinions on subjects about which she knows nothing. Insecure struggling poet John Keats comes to live with his friend, Mr. Brown. Miss Brawne and Mr. Keats have a mutual attraction to each other, but their relationship is slow to develop, in part, since Mr. Brown does whatever he can to keep the two apart. Other obstacles face the couple, including their eventual overwhelming passion for each other clouding their view of what the other does, Mr. Keats' struggling career, which offers him little in the way of monetary security (which will lead to Mrs. Brawne not giving consent for them to marry), and health issues which had earlier taken the life of Mr. Keats' brother, Tom.

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Urban Cinefile - 10/10 by Louise KellerLike a bright star that shines from the heavens, Jane Campion's film about the doomed love between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne is exquisitely beautiful, but keeps us at arm's length.
Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/10 by Carrie RickeyIntimate as a whisper, immediate as a blush, and universal as first love, the PG-rated film positively palpitates with the sensual and spiritual.
Urban Cinefile - 10/10 by Andrew L. UrbanBut the film is more about the impact of love on both their lives than about the impact of his poetry, which wasn't widely recognised until after his death. Life's a bitch.
Financial Times - 10/10 by Nigel AndrewsSteadfastness, truth and a simple, blazing, incandescent humanity. This is a literary life story in which life, for once, is the meaningful word.
Windy City Times - 10/10 by Richard KnightI wanted to love it because it's so damn literary and exquisitely put together but ultimately it felt like a very long two hours.
culturevulture.net - 10/10 by Beverly BerningIf John Keats is the catalyst who inspired Miss Campion to make this film, and us to go see it, it is Fanny Brawne, the bright star of the film's title, who makes it worthwhile.
Slate - 10/10 by Dana StevensThe rare film about the life of an artist that is itself a work of art.
Guardian - 10/10 by Peter BradshawA deeply felt and intelligent film, one of those that has grown in my mind on a second viewing; it is almost certainly the best of Campion's career, exposing The Piano as overrated and overegged.
Combustible Celluloid - 10/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonThe movie hovers just above moments of fact and reportage, resting almost totally on a cloud of passion and emotion. The fact that Keats was one of the greatest romantic poets is merely a bonus and an excuse for some gorgeous, glorious dialogue.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Amy BiancolliA fine-boned, luminous tribute to Keats and the sufferings of love.

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